nervous - Story 92829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the bathroom mirror. His face was pale, his eyes wide. He splashed cold water on his face, hoping to regain some composure. The meeting was in five minutes. He could feel the panic rise.

He had dedicated the last three years of his life to this project. He knew he'd seen the other person's work. The same code. The same designs. The same idea. He didn't know what to do.

He walked into the meeting room, feeling like he was walking to the gallows. He saw him, the other engineer, already seated, a strange look on his face.

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