nervous - Story 92158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the building was thin and stale. Olivia kept tapping her foot, a rapid, erratic rhythm that echoed in her ears. She glanced at the other applicants, each seemingly radiating a confidence she couldn't muster. She watched as her friend, Sophia, was called in for her interview and the door closed behind her.

Olivia felt a wave of coldness wash over her. She knew how much this job meant to them both. A cold sweat covered her palms. She bit her lip, a habit she'd been trying to break for years. The wait felt interminable.

She forced herself to take a slow, deliberate breath, trying to ease the pressure in her chest.

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