nervous - Story 92646 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the server room was intense. The hum of the equipment was almost deafening to Mark. He found himself picking at the corner of a label on one of the servers. He kept running his hand through his hair.

He’d known something was up when his team lead, Sarah, had started acting strangely. Sarah was usually upbeat, but she'd been withdrawn for weeks, making hurried phone calls, disappearing into private meetings.

He went to check the temperature readings, his motions deliberate and slow. He needed something to anchor him.

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