nervous - Story 92613 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shrink as Emily watched the toastmaster clear his throat. Her mother winked at her from across the room, oblivious to the turmoil brewing within. Emily clutched her handbag, her knuckles white. She could feel a coldness creeping into her extremities.

She'd spent weeks agonizing over what to say. Now, all the carefully crafted sentences felt inadequate, almost childish. She wanted to retreat, to disappear into the nearest corner.

The toastmaster announced her name. As she walked towards the stage, her vision seemed to tunnel, focusing only on the bright lights.

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