nervous - Story 92826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He avoided eye contact as he settled into his seat. The office was bustling with activity, but all he could focus on was the empty seat next to him. The meeting was about to start, and he had the feeling of impending doom. The other contender had walked in earlier, with a confident smile.

He had always considered himself a good coder. He knew his project was unique. He believed in it. Yet, he felt a knot of dread tighten in his stomach. He didn't want this. He didn't want to fail.

The lead researcher began the presentation. It started with his project. He saw the slide. He saw the code. It was the same as his.

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