nervous - Story 92707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the server room resonated in Liam’s teeth. He was attempting to debug a crucial piece of code, but his concentration was shot. The problem was not the code, it was the thought of facing his coworker.

He spun around to see his coworker, Jessica. She was grinning. "Liam! Remember Camp Whispering Pines?" She said, her voice full of excitement.

His throat closed up. He recalled the time he set fire to the camp kitchen during a particularly ambitious cooking project. He felt like he couldn’t breathe. He had to say something.

"Yeah," he finally croaked. “Why do you ask?”

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