nervous - Story 92828 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold sweat trickled down her spine. The auditorium was vast, filled with rows and rows of people. Her palms were wet. The air felt heavy. The presentation was about to begin. She could feel the pressure building.

She spotted him in the back, the other designer, his face a mask of polite interest. She had seen his portfolio. She knew his project. They were the same.

The CEO began the introduction. The first slide appeared. It was her project. Then, the next slide was similar. Then, the next. A pit opened in her stomach.

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