nervous - Story 92275 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of freshly brewed coffee did nothing to settle Carol’s stomach. She clutched the framed photo of her dog a little tighter as she stood outside the door to the Research and Development department. Her face felt flushed. She was leaving the quiet familiarity of the library.

She hesitated, her hand hovering over the doorknob. The thought of spreadsheets and data now seemed comforting. She knew the library, she knew its books, its smells, its routines. This was all new. Terrifying.

Taking a breath, she pushed the door open. The air was thick with the scent of chemicals and the low hum of machinery. A technician in a lab coat glanced up, his expression unreadable.

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