nervous - Story 92152 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah twisted the hem of her dress, her fingers tracing the delicate embroidery she usually admired. The air in the cafe felt thick, too warm, even though the air conditioning was blasting. Across the table, Chloe sipped her latte with an unsettling serenity. Sarah wished she could mirror that composure. The thought of the interview, the potential rejection, the possibility of letting down her friend made her fidget.

"You look..." Chloe started, her voice gentle.

"Fine," Sarah interrupted, her voice a little too sharp. She tried to smile, but it felt forced. The job was perfect for them both. The thought alone caused a feeling of weight in her stomach.

She took a shaky breath, then quickly checked her watch for the fourth time in five minutes.

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