nervous - Story 92620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room blurred. She felt a lightness in her head and a powerful urge to flee. She kept swallowing to moisten her dry throat. It was as if all the air had been sucked out of the room.

She focused on the patterns in the tablecloth, trying to distract herself. The thought of getting up on that stage filled her with dread. The words wouldn’t come.

The music stopped. Her name was called. She felt rooted to the spot, paralyzed by fear. A voice inside her screamed at her to run.

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