nervous - Story 92131 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in Leo’s inbox, a stark white rectangle against the grey background. He reread the subject line: “Academic Integrity Inquiry.” His stomach clenched. He scrolled through the message again, his eyes darting back and forth, trying to make the words change their meaning. They didn't. He clicked the delete button, then immediately regretted it and retrieved the message. His hand trembled slightly as he began to formulate a reply. He kept changing his mind, deleting each sentence and starting again.

Emotion: nervous

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -1.08 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.47

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion nervous. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 nervous stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the nervous emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the nervous vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`worse`	0.229
`trem`	0.203
`😰`	0.203
`😨`	0.201
`緊張`	0.200

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.397
`que`	-0.260
`a`	-0.242
`B`	-0.217
`H`	-0.210