nervous - Story 92680 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared into his coffee, the dark liquid swirling in the cup, mirroring the chaos in his thoughts. He kept seeing his advisor’s face in his mind – Professor Klein, and the announcement. He'd been so close, just a few months away from finishing. The news had completely thrown him.

He pushed the mug away, the ceramic rim clinking softly against the table. His hands felt clammy. He stood up abruptly, knocking over his chair. He stared down at it, then let out a sharp sigh.

He considered going home, but he knew he couldn’t face the silence of his apartment. He walked out of the cafe, the city noise and activity doing little to distract him from the impending change in his life.

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