nervous - Story 92643 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt impossibly long. Sarah clenched and unclenched her fists, trying to control the tremor that ran through her hands. Her breath hitched as the doors opened, revealing the brightly lit lobby. Everyone seemed to be whispering.

She spotted her manager, David, across the room, talking in hushed tones with several other team leads. She felt her chest constrict. It was like everyone knew something she didn't, which was probably the truth.

She quickened her pace, desperate to hear the news. The air around her felt thick, difficult to breathe.

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