nervous - Story 92667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small space felt suffocating. Claire’s hands trembled as she pulled her phone out again, even though she knew it wouldn’t work. She could feel the blood draining from her face.

Her eyes darted around the elevator, cataloging every detail. The scuff marks on the walls. The flickering lights. The red emergency button that seemed to mock her.

"How long do you think they'll be?" she asked, her voice strained. Her gaze was fixed on the ceiling, as if expecting the roof to fall in at any moment.

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