nervous - Story 92280 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the box containing her belongings felt almost unbearable. The move to the graphic design team represented a complete 180-degree turn in her career. Her legs felt wobbly as she made her way down the hall, and she took deep, shallow breaths. She was leaving the quiet of the mailroom behind.

The walls were decorated with colorful posters and inspirational quotes. The air crackled with a different kind of energy, one that she couldn’t quite name. She felt a knot in her stomach tighten as she made her way into her new surroundings.

Her new team was a group of friendly faces, all looking expectantly in her direction. She managed a weak smile, but she felt a cold dread wash over her.

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