nervous - Story 92827 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The temperature in the elevator seemed to rise with each passing floor. His hands were clammy. He could feel his heart beat in his ears. He kept replaying his presentation in his mind, trying to anticipate any possible questions. The project was his life.

The doors opened, and he was met with a sea of expectant faces. He saw her then, across the room. She was talking with the CEO. She turned and saw him, and offered a polite smile. His stomach twisted. He knew.

They were working on the same thing.

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