nervous - Story 92447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands trembled as she reached for the phone. The dial tone buzzed in her ear, each ring amplifying the anxiety churning within her. The shared space suddenly felt contaminated, polluted by the knowledge that her roommate, Emily, had invaded her privacy. Jessica wished she could physically vanish.

The silence on the other end felt deafening. When Emily had denied the reading, Jessica knew it was a lie. Her vision blurred, and her chest felt tight. She dropped the phone back onto the receiver, the loud click echoing in the suddenly quiet room. A knot formed in 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