nervous - Story 92824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced in the small cubicle, the confines of the space growing increasingly claustrophobic. His jaw was clenched, his temples throbbing. He felt like his head was going to explode. The email had arrived an hour ago, summoning him to a meeting he knew would be his undoing.

He’d put everything into this project, pouring his heart and soul into every detail. Now, there was a chance that everything he’d done was in vain. The door swung open, and there he was, the rival researcher, a smug smile plastered across his face.

“Ready to compare notes?” he said, his voice smooth and unsettling.

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