nervous - Story 92645 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just breathe," Claire muttered under her breath, staring at her reflection in the darkened computer screen. Her face was flushed, her eyes wide. She’d been avoiding eye contact with anyone all day.

She’d overheard bits and pieces of a conversation in the break room earlier, whispers about a potential acquisition. The company, the only place she'd worked since college, was being sold.

The thought sent a shiver down her spine. She took another deep breath, trying to slow her racing heart. A cold sweat had begun to coat her skin.

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