nervous - Story 92538 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the financial aid office felt thick and oppressive. He fidgeted, running a hand through his hair, dislodging strands of it. He sat across from a stern-faced woman who was explaining the situation with detached professionalism.

It was a case of mistaken identity. His scholarship, the one he relied on, was destined for someone else. He felt a wave of dizziness wash over him.

He felt the muscles in his jaw clench. This was going to change everything. The future he had envisioned, the one he'd worked so hard for, was suddenly a shadow of its former self.

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