nervous - Story 92306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the spreadsheet, his eyes unfocused. John felt a cold sweat break out across his forehead. Emily, the recent graduate they had just hired, was making significantly more. He had poured his heart and soul into this company for fifteen years.

He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands.

He pushed his chair back from the desk, the wheels squeaking on the carpet. He had a feeling that something bad was about to happen.

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