nervous - Story 92260 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery buzzed with chatter and laughter. She stood in a corner, clutching a glass of wine, her smile fixed and strained. The article, her painstakingly researched art critique, was being celebrated. But the name attached was not hers.

She felt a profound disconnect, as though she were an outsider looking in. The room spun slightly. She took a large gulp of wine, the liquid burning her throat.

She wanted to run, to disappear, but the crowd pressed around her, trapping her. Her breath hitched. She forced a laugh, a hollow sound that seemed to disappear into the festive atmosphere.

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