nervous - Story 92146 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Morning, Sam!” The upbeat greeting from the security guard felt jarring. His usual jovial demeanor felt strangely out of place today. Sam kept walking, his steps hurried, his gaze fixed on the familiar door of the lab.

The door was locked. He tapped his keycard against the reader, but nothing happened. He tapped again, the metal clicking against the plastic. Still nothing. His fingers felt numb.

He tried the handle. Locked. He pounded softly, his knuckles aching. Where was Dr. Ramirez? The silence of the hallway now echoed with an unfamiliar hollowness.

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