nervous - Story 92705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the office seemed to pulse, making Emily's head throb. She tried to focus on the budget report, but the numbers swam before her eyes. The meeting was in an hour and she was not ready.

"Hey, Emily," said Michael, her coworker, approaching her desk. “Did you ever think you'd end up working in corporate after going to summer camp?”

He was smiling at her. Emily felt her body stiffen.

“I was just thinking about Camp Sunshine,” Michael continued, oblivious to the change in her posture. “You remember that epic prank war?” Emily's stomach dropped. She remembered. The time she’d accidentally dyed his hair blue.

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