nervous - Story 92516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the worn, faded posters on the office wall, their vibrant colors now dull and lifeless. The trophies in the cabinet seemed to mock him. Everything in the room had suddenly gained a surreal significance, as if he was staring at a museum of a life that was about to end. His palms were slick with perspiration, and he wiped them surreptitiously on his jeans.

"Have a seat, son." The coach's voice was low, and it sent a chill down his spine. He took a deep, involuntary breath, trying to slow his erratic heartbeat. His mouth felt dry, his tongue thick and clumsy.

The coach tapped a pen against the desk. The sound echoed in the sudden, agonizing silence.

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