nervous - Story 92899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment the professor called out her name, Chloe felt a jolt of alarm. She walked forward, with a slow gait, her shoulders slumped. When the exam was handed to her, she looked down and saw a “D”. A wave of frustration washed over her.

She quickly scanned the comments, but they only served to underscore the truth. She was failing. The world around her seemed to become hazy, the colors of the room dulling. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, a mixture of anger and shame.

Her hands clenched into fists, her fingernails digging into her palms. She bit her lip to stop the tears that threatened to spill over. Her throat felt tight. She needed air.

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