nervous - Story 92199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found herself fidgeting, adjusting the strap of her handbag, even though it was already perfectly positioned on her shoulder. The hallway buzzed with the excited chatter of children and parents, but all she could focus on was the looming presence of Mr. Harding. The same Mr. Harding who had once scolded her in front of the entire class.

She swallowed hard, her mouth suddenly dry.

She kept playing with her car keys, wanting to escape. She couldn't believe this was happening.

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