nervous - Story 92453 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed around Maya, but she barely registered the noise. She clutched the printout of her DNA results in her sweaty palm, her vision blurring slightly. She had always felt incomplete, like a piece of a puzzle that didn’t fit.

She knew this was a long shot, but the possibility of finally understanding where she came from had been the driving force behind the test. Now, as the list of potential relatives stared back at her, she felt a strange mix of excitement and unease.

Her throat felt constricted, and she took a long, slow sip of her latte. This was it. She closed her eyes for a moment, gathering herself. "Okay," she whispered, "Let's do this."

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