nervous - Story 92820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I'd rehearsed my greeting a dozen times in the car, each attempt falling apart the second it left my lips. My hands were clammy, and I kept pulling at the hem of my shirt. The scent of lavender from the diffuser in the waiting room was doing the opposite of its intended effect.

The door opened, and there he was. "Ready to start, Jessica?" The question hung in the air. I swallowed, trying to find my voice.

The office was bright, and filled with sunlight. I sat down, crossing my arms defensively, and attempted a smile. My jaw was clenched, and I could barely breathe.

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