nervous - Story 92579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hospital waiting room was the worst part. Every cough and sigh seemed to magnify his anxiety. He clenched and unclenched his fists in his lap, the skin on his palms slick with sweat. He was finally face to face with his past.

The nurse called her name.

He stood up, his legs shaky. He knew he had to go.

He saw her, and he called out. "Lisa?"

She stopped and turned. Her expression was neutral. "I'm afraid I don't 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