nervous - Story 92017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The family gathered for Sunday dinner, but the atmosphere was anything but comfortable. David knew his sister, Emily, was up to something; she had been acting secretive for weeks. Now she announced she was going to be a Wiccan.

David felt the meal grow heavy in his stomach. He picked at his food, pushing it around his plate. He avoided making eye contact with anyone.

He felt a sudden heat rise in his cheeks. The air in the dining room felt constricted. His chest felt tight, and he could barely swallow. His parents stared blankly at their daughter. The silence was deafening.

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