nervous - Story 92698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As the day wore on, Susan found herself seeking out solitude. The thought of the interview filled her with an unpleasant sense of unease. She needed to take a walk.

She avoided the water cooler, avoiding any casual chats with her colleagues. She needed a moment to herself. She went to the roof of the building, and the wind whipped around her, almost trying to tear her away.

She closed her eyes, trying to breathe deeply, but the air felt thin and hard to pull in. The city skyline blurred, and she found herself clenching her fists.

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