nervous - Story 92197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched in her throat as she approached the teacher's desk. The room seemed to blur at the edges. The aroma of chalk and stale milk transported her back to a time of awkward braces and the stinging sting of Mrs. Ellis’s harsh judgements. The woman's severe face, etched with a perpetual frown, was instantly recognizable.

She felt the need to apologize for something, anything, even though her daughter was the student, not her. She started to ramble about homework and deadlines.

She hoped the woman didn't remember her.

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