nervous - Story 92823 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in her hand, threatening to spill its lukewarm contents. The aroma of stale coffee did little to calm her. Across the table, a man she didn't know tapped a pen against his teeth, his gaze flitting between her and the projector screen. It felt like an eternity. She felt her face flush. Her palms were damp.

Her stomach felt like it was doing somersaults.

The IT guy gave a thumbs up from the corner, and the screen flickered to life. The first slide, identical to hers, filled the screen. A wave of heat washed over her. She knew she shouldn't have been surprised. She saw the same lab equipment in the other lab.

"Well, this is an interesting development," the man said, a strange mix of amusement and something else in his voice.

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