nervous - Story 92537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library, usually a sanctuary of calm, felt constricting. She found herself staring at the open textbook, unable to focus. The words blurred on the page, the lines dancing before her eyes.

The email had been a gut punch. A clerical error. The scholarship, the thing that allowed her to attend this prestigious institution, was to be revoked.

She leaned her forehead against the cool surface of the table, trying to regain control. Her hands, usually steady, were now shaking so badly that she had to grip them together. The weight of it all was overwhelming.

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