nervous - Story 92877 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the exhibition seemed to mock her. The gallery owner had been particularly enthusiastic. Chloe felt a shiver run down her spine. Her shoulders felt tight, and she kept swallowing, a dry scratch in her throat.

A collection of her photographs, stolen from her personal website, hung in the center of the room. A group of people stood around them, commenting on her ability. Chloe felt a flush rise in her face.

The room seemed to spin. She tried to take a deep breath, but her lungs felt locked. She felt trapped in a nightmare, a stranger in her own skin. She fumbled with the strap of her handbag. Time seemed to slow.

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