nervous - Story 92255 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor’s office felt claustrophobic. The air conditioning hummed, a monotonous drone that amplified the silence. She waited, her leg bouncing, her gaze fixed on the floral wallpaper. She had poured her heart into this article, a long-form essay on women’s health. Now, it was… not hers.

She picked at a loose thread on her sweater, her fingers finding a tiny imperfection. Her palms felt slick with sweat. The minutes stretched, each one an eternity.

When the nurse called her name, her voice sounded distant, as if from another room. She rose, her legs feeling unsteady. The weight of the world seemed to settle on her shoulders.

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