nervous - Story 92540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elegant restaurant, where she was celebrating her acceptance, suddenly felt like a cage. The clinking of glasses and the chatter of other diners grated on her. She picked at her food, unable to taste anything.

The email's contents still echoed in her mind. An error. A mix-up. The scholarship, which had seemed like a dream come true, was a phantom promise. The money was meant for someone else.

She forced a smile for her parents, but her jaw ached from the effort. Her pulse raced. The future, previously so bright, had suddenly become a question mark.

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