nervous - Story 92247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun beat down on the pavement as she waited for the bus. Her palms were damp, and she kept wiping them on her jeans. The thought of the clinic’s blunder, the records of another person now inexplicably mixed with hers, had left her feeling unsettled.

She glanced at her reflection in a shop window, noting the pinched look on her face. What if the tests results she had received were actually for someone else? What if her life was about to take a completely unexpected turn?

She tugged at the strap of her bag and took a few deep breaths, trying to quiet the racing of her heart.

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