nervous - Story 92673 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed around her, yet she felt utterly isolated. The aroma of roasted beans, usually comforting, now felt cloying. She had been staring at the email on her phone for fifteen minutes, barely registering the barista calling out names. Her palms were slick.

The cup of tea in her hand felt impossibly heavy. She sipped it, the hot liquid doing little to soothe the chill creeping through her. She played with the straw in her drink, twisting it and bending it until it was almost unrecognizable.

The thought of facing her professor, of hearing the news in person, filled her with dread. She had a meeting scheduled for tomorrow, and suddenly the thought of it seemed like an impossible hurdle.

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