nervous - Story 92196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the classroom door, his stomach doing a strange flip-flop motion. It wasn’t a pleasant sensation. The familiar blue paint and the little name tag felt like a portal back in time. Mr. Collins. The name alone conjured images of daunting math problems and public shaming.

His palms itched. He felt the sudden urge to flee, to disappear.

He took a slow breath, trying to slow his racing pulse. He had to put his feelings aside. He had to be strong.

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