nervous - Story 92668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metal walls seemed to shrink. Ben kept glancing at the security cameras, hoping to see a sign that someone was aware of their predicament. His pulse quickened.

He paced the confines of the elevator, taking tiny, restless steps. His shoulders were bunched up, his jaw clenched. He was acutely aware of the closeness of his coworker, Jessica.

"I need some air," he blurted out, even though there was no air to be had. He fanned himself with a hand, the gesture jerky and repetitive.

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