nervous - Story 92250 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's words replayed in her head: "We are so sorry for the inconvenience." The dismissive tone hadn't sat well with her. Her stomach churned. Now, she sat on the park bench, staring at the children laughing as they played in the sand.

She felt a wave of nausea. The whole situation felt like a violation. What diseases, what conditions, what *secrets* were now interwoven with her personal information? She covered her mouth with her hand, suppressing the urge to vomit.

She rose suddenly, needing air, needing to escape the suffocating weight of uncertainty. She started walking towards the trees, away from the joyful chaos, desperate to get away from it all.

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