nervous - Story 92825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the lecture hall was thick with anticipation. It clawed at her throat. She found herself picking at a loose thread on her sleeve. Her mouth felt dry. The presentation would begin in moments. She saw him in the front row, the other presenter, Dr. Ramirez. He was scribbling notes on a pad, seemingly oblivious to the weight of the moment.

Her pulse accelerated. She had seen Dr. Ramirez's lab, the prototypes, the data. They were nearly identical. She had a sinking feeling. She thought of the months of work, the sacrifices, the sleepless nights. All leading to this... this potential disaster. She couldn't 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