nervous - Story 92650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the break room felt thick, heavy. Emily picked at the edges of a stale donut. She avoided eye contact with the other employees, who were all gathered around the communal table.

The email had been sent. The company was being sold. The silence in the room was almost as deafening as the chatter of the espresso machine.

She felt a tremor in her hands. She wondered if she'd be able to keep it together until the end of the day. She had to stay calm.

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