nervous - Story 92209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her mouth felt dry, her tongue sticking to the roof of it. The absence of her car was a glaring, unwelcome presence. She stared at the empty space, her mind struggling to process what was in front of her. The world seemed to shrink, the edges blurring.

Her hands, cold and clammy, clutched at the strap of her purse. A wave of dizziness washed over her. She took a deep breath, trying to regain control.

“Oh my goodness,” she whispered. She needed to sit down.

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