nervous - Story 92573 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting room felt suffocating, the air thick with the antiseptic smell of the clinic. The magazine in her lap remained untouched, the glossy pages blurring before her eyes. Every tick of the clock was a hammer blow against her skull. This was insane. Meeting her after all this time felt like a bad idea, even though she had wanted to for years.

Then, the door opened.

He walked into the room. He seemed to have no idea who she was.

She shifted in her seat, suddenly feeling very small, very insignificant. "David?" she squeaked.

He looked puzzled. "Do I know you?"

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