nervous - Story 92894 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment she walked into the professor's office, Sarah felt her palms begin to sweat. The door felt miles away, and her heart rate quickened with each step. When the professor handed her the exam, she looked at the "C" with a sensation of profound disappointment. It wasn’t just a bad grade; it was a betrayal of all the effort she'd put in.

Her voice caught in her throat when she attempted to ask questions. She fumbled with the exam, her fingers clumsy and unsure. The professor’s words, intended to be helpful, seemed to echo in the hollow space of her skull. It felt like a betrayal.

She found herself unable to make eye contact, her gaze darting around the room, searching for an escape. The longer she remained, the more exposed she felt, vulnerable and inadequate.

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