nervous - Story 92200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to spin, though she stood still. The sight of Ms. Miller, her former English teacher, sent a jolt of ice through her veins. The woman’s stern expression, the way she had critiqued her every essay, was as fresh in her mind as if it had happened yesterday. Now, her own child would be under her guidance.

She took a step backward, nearly bumping into another parent. She had to get control of herself.

She started to sweat, even though the room was cool. She wondered if she should just disappear.

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