nervous - Story 92663 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air grew heavy and stagnant. Sarah’s palms were slick. She kept glancing at the ceiling, then at the floor, then back at the door. Her pulse thrummed in her ears, a frantic drumbeat against the silence.

"Anything?" she asked, her voice barely a whisper. Her colleague, David, simply shook his head. He looked about as relaxed as anyone could be.

She took a shaky breath and leaned against the cold metal wall. She was getting hot. She really, really wanted out of there. The thought of being trapped made her want to claw at the walls.

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