nervous - Story 92493 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in Clara’s hand, the lukewarm liquid sloshing dangerously close to the rim. The sterile white walls of the patent office seemed to close in on her. She replayed the conversation in her mind, over and over, each sentence a fresh wound. She swallowed hard, the muscles in her throat tight. Her fingers twitched, itching to disassemble something, to understand and control the situation. Outside, the city roared, a distant, uncaring monster.

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