nervous - Story 92644 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office felt stuffy, even with the windows open. John felt a strange lightness, as if he were floating slightly above the floor. He glanced at the document he was reviewing, the words swimming before his eyes. He couldn't concentrate.

The coffee machine, usually a source of comfort, now seemed to mock him with its constant gurgling. He rubbed his palms together, trying to warm them. He needed a distraction.

He walked over to the water cooler, hoping the simple act of filling his glass would ground him. The silence in the office was deafening.

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