nervous - Story 92925 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt like an eternity. He kept checking his watch, each second amplifying the pounding in his chest. The elevator doors opened, and he stepped onto the clinical floor, the air stale and echoing. He was so ready to be done.

His steps were slow as he entered the waiting room. He saw a young woman already there. He immediately recognized the slight blue tint to her skin, the characteristic hallmark of their condition. He wondered if she felt the same way he did.

She looked up, her expression a careful blend of curiosity and caution. He attempted a smile, a gesture that came across as shaky. “They said I should wait here,” he managed, his voice sounding thin in the vast space.

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