nervous - Story 92191 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah smoothed down the front of her blouse, her palm slick against the fabric. The PTA meeting felt like a high school dance all over again, only instead of a boy’s hand on her back, it was the principal's gaze, fixed on her. She had known the teacher's name was Mrs. Gable, but the woman's face, etched in her memory, had only just surfaced. It was the same Mrs. Gable, the one who'd failed her in history, the one who made her feel small. Now, her own daughter would be spending the year under her tutelage.

A bead of sweat trickled down her temple. Sarah forced a smile and took a shaky breath. She found herself clutching her purse, her knuckles white.

She had to get out of there. Maybe she should just… leave. Pretend she forgot something.

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