nervous - Story 92155 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the car was almost unbearable. Emily kept fiddling with the car's radio, flipping through stations and then switching it off, unable to find anything that soothed her. Beside her, Jessica, her best friend, sat quietly, staring out the window. Emily felt a fluttery feeling in her stomach.

The closer they got to the office building, the more intense the sensation became. Emily’s breathing quickened. She started to rehearse her responses in her head, the words tumbling over each other. She wished she had brought something to fidget with, a pen, a coin, anything to help focus.

"We’re here," Jessica said gently. Emily just nodded.

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