nervous - Story 92192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He gripped the steering wheel, knuckles bone-white, as he pulled into the school parking lot. The knot in his stomach tightened with each revolution of the tires. Mr. Henderson. It couldn't be. Surely, there was another teacher named Mr. Henderson. But the flyer, the welcome email… they all pointed to the same man who’d tormented him with pop quizzes and intimidating glares.

He shifted uncomfortably in his seat, the leather digging into his thighs. He dreaded the parent-teacher conference.

He should have asked his wife to come. He suddenly wished he wasn't alone. Maybe he would call her.

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