nervous - Story 92872 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched as she rounded the corner. The vibrant colours of her paintings practically screamed from the gallery walls. Sarah’s heart hammered a frantic rhythm against her ribs. It felt as though it wanted to escape her chest. The polished concrete floor seemed miles away.

A small group of people clustered around one of her pieces, discussing it animatedly. Their words drifted to her in snippets, unintelligible yet somehow judging. Sweat beaded on her forehead. She felt a cold dread creep into her core. She hadn't even known the exhibition was happening.

She attempted to back away, her heel catching on a stray power cable. A flush of heat spread over her skin. She steadied herself and silently moved away.

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