nervous - Story 92515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting room seemed to shrink with every minute that passed. Emily kept checking her phone, even though there were no new messages. The fluorescent lights overhead seemed to pulse in time with her racing pulse. She had practiced her story, rehearsed her pleas, knowing the odds were against her.

She had always been a fighter. This wasn't supposed to happen. She felt a knot forming in her stomach, twisting tighter and tighter. The magazines on the table remained untouched, the glossy covers mocking her.

The secretary called her name. The sound sliced through the quiet, and her breath hitched.

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