nervous - Story 92129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bit his lip, the action almost imperceptible. The announcement of yet another delay echoed through the vast hall, and a shiver ran through Thomas. His father’s retirement party was tonight.

He closed his eyes and saw his father's face, the smile, the pride. He felt a constriction in his throat. He'd promised to be there, to give a speech. The thought caused a knot to form in his stomach.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm the turmoil inside. His foot bounced, a small and seemingly involuntary movement. He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it further.

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