nervous - Story 92326 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the menu, the words blurring before his eyes. The critic's assessment – "lacked conviction" – had pierced Victor's confidence. He was supposed to be the chef, the creative force, the one who led his team. Now, he felt like a fraud. He wanted to scream.

He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it further. He felt like he had been punched. The kitchen, usually his sanctuary, felt oppressive, suffocating. The air was thick with the scent of garlic and simmering sauces, but he could taste nothing. He was going to have to face the staff, but he didn't know what he would say.

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