nervous - Story 92819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The receptionist's smile felt forced, and it did little to reassure me. I drummed my fingers on my knee, the sound amplified in the quiet room. My mind raced, replaying every embarrassing memory I had of him. I needed to escape.

"Daniel?" The voice sliced through my thoughts. He stood in the doorway, looking composed and professional. I took a deep breath, trying to project an air of calm that I certainly didn’t feel.

His office was minimalist, with a large window overlooking the city. I sat, my posture stiff, resisting the urge to jump up and run.

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