nervous - Story 92868 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call came during dinner. Ms. Garcia, mid-bite of her pasta, nearly choked. It was a former student, Maria, now a successful architect. Maria was offering her a job in the company.

She managed to stammer a polite acceptance, her heart thumping against her ribs. She felt a warmth in her cheeks, and the food seemed to stick in her throat. Her hands were ice cold.

She hung up, her appetite gone. She wandered aimlessly through the kitchen, the weight of the offer settling upon her.

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