nervous - Story 92397 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the waiting room offered no comfort. Liam shifted in the uncomfortable chair, his leg bouncing uncontrollably. Every cough, every rustle of paper seemed amplified. He was on the verge of cracking.

The letter was in a worn copy of *Pride and Prejudice*. He unfolded it with trembling hands. His hands were damp. The words swam before his eyes.

He needed to breathe. He needed to be calm. He looked around. His eyes darted from face to face, searching for a sign, a clue.

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