nervous - Story 92496 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya avoided eye contact with the venture capitalist. The man's office, all sleek lines and expensive art, felt like a judgment hall. She picked at a loose thread on her sleeve, the fabric yielding easily to her anxious touch. The proposal, once so vibrant and full of promise, now seemed to mock her from the polished mahogany table. She knew, deep down, the implications of what they were discussing. The end of a dream.

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