nervous - Story 92665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence was deafening. Emily found herself clenching and unclenching her fists. The feeling was beginning to creep up her chest, her heart hammering against her ribs.

She avoided looking at Liam, trying to focus on anything else. The pattern on the elevator floor. The cracks in the ceiling. Anything but the growing panic that threatened to overwhelm her.

She swallowed hard, her mouth suddenly dry. "Do you think they know we're in here?" she managed to ask, her voice thin and reedy. There was a pause, and then the sound of her own voice sent another chill of dread through her.

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