nervous - Story 92866 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived on a Tuesday, subject line: "Reunion & Gratitude." Ms. Albright reread it three times, each time feeling the tightening in her shoulders intensify. It was from David, the class clown who never took anything seriously. He was organizing a get-together, and she was invited.

She pushed her glasses up her nose, avoiding her reflection in the computer screen. She stared at the invitation, the lines of text blurring slightly. She felt like something was crawling under her skin. She closed her laptop with a snap.

She knew she would go. She would have to. But the thought of it made her feel as if she had swallowed a rock.

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