nervous - Story 92995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The university's online newsletter glared back at her. Her essay, the one that had felt so deeply personal, was now fodder for future applicants. She felt a profound sense of unease settle over her. Her hands fidgeted, picking at the loose threads on her jeans. She glanced at the clock, the seconds ticking by in agonizing slowness. She thought of her family and friends, and the potential embarrassment that would come with such a public display of her former self.

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