nervous - Story 92303 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ascended slowly, each floor a fresh wave of anticipation. Leo clutched his briefcase so tightly his knuckles were white. He was heading to the annual review, the same review where he suspected he would confront his manager about the disparity. He had overheard the water cooler conversations; they discussed the new hire's generous starting salary.

His palms were slick. He rubbed them against his trousers, trying to compose himself. He glanced at his reflection in the mirrored wall of the elevator. His tie felt too tight.

The doors opened. He stepped out, his stomach a knot of tension as he started his walk to the conference room.

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