nervous - Story 92304 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning in the break room felt glacial against Clara's clammy skin. She stared at the half-eaten sandwich in her hands, her appetite completely gone. She had been shocked at the numbers. Daniel, the new marketing intern, was pulling in more than her. She had been at the firm for eight years.

She felt a tingling in her fingers, making it difficult to even hold the sandwich. She put it back on the plate, no longer wanting to eat.

Taking a deep breath, she decided to make a cup of tea. Maybe the hot water would help settle her stomach.

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