nervous - Story 92928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The appointment was at 3. She stared at the clock, watching the second hand sweep across the face. Each tick felt like a blow. She was to meet someone who shared her medical anomaly. It was a terrifying concept.

The hospital was busy. Everyone was hurried, moving with purpose. When she saw the other person with her condition, he had the same look on his face. He felt the same way. She was sure.

He reached out his hand, and she reached for it.

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