nervous - Story 92177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the server room was a low thrum that echoed in his ears as David stared at the computer screen. He’d been trying to log in for an hour, the password locked out. He felt a prickly sensation crawl over his skin. Something about the whole situation didn’t feel right.

He had always been proud of his friend, Alex, and his tech job. Always described as cutting-edge, a job that was always changing. He’d stumbled upon Alex's LinkedIn profile, a completely different profile to the one he knew, one that revealed his friend’s actual employment at a very questionable company.

Finally, the screen flashed with a new prompt. He took a deep breath.

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