nervous - Story 92735 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Sarah’s hand, the plastic digging into her palm. She’d rehearsed the conversation in her head a dozen times, but now, facing the truth, her throat closed up. Across the kitchen table, the half-eaten breakfast cereal sat untouched. She’d tried to eat, but she just couldn’t. The news had stolen her appetite.

She stared at the phone number on the screen. The screen's glow filled the room. She knew she needed to call Jess, but the thought of hearing Jess's voice, of hearing the confirmation of the move, sent a jolt of anxiety through her.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She pressed the call button, the sound echoing in the kitchen. She just needed to hear her friend’s voice, even if it was just for a little while.

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