nervous - Story 92697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the office seemed brighter than usual, casting long, stark shadows across Daniel’s desk. He couldn’t focus on his work. His eyes kept darting to the clock, the seconds ticking by with agonizing slowness. He was usually so productive. Today was different.

He kept fiddling with his pen, clicking it repeatedly. He felt a constant pressure behind his eyes, a sensation he couldn't quite identify. Every creak of a chair, every muffled conversation, seemed to amplify his internal state.

He glanced at the other side of the office, where his competitor, Maria, sat, looking completely unfazed.

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