nervous - Story 92991 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email shimmered in her inbox, the subject line a cruel joke: "Congratulations! Your essay is featured." Her fingers hesitated over the mouse, the cursor a mocking spotlight. A cold wash spread across her skin, prickling at her scalp. She pressed the button, and the university website materialized on her screen, all crisp lines and happy students. The essay, her essay, stared back at her, bold and unyielding. She let out a shaky breath and started reading, each word a step further down a precipice.

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