nervous - Story 92677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library card felt slippery in her sweaty palm. She’d been avoiding this place all day, but she needed to find some reference material. She tried to appear casual as she walked past the circulation desk, but her posture was rigid, her movements stilted. The news, the news, the news. Her advisor, Dr. Lee, moving to a different institution.

The familiar scent of old books, normally a comfort, now felt oppressive. She fumbled with the card catalog, her fingers clumsy and unresponsive. Each click of the keyboard seemed to amplify her distress.

She wanted to scream, to run. She felt trapped, lost, as if her entire academic foundation was crumbling beneath 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