nervous - Story 92198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The principal’s words seemed to echo in his ears. The pit of his stomach felt like it was sinking into the floor. He hadn't wanted to come to this open house, but his wife insisted. Now, he was facing the woman who had made his high school years a misery. Mr. Johnson. The name alone seemed to mock him.

He kept adjusting his tie, pulling at the knot. He wanted to look confident, composed.

He had to get out of here. He wondered how long he could politely linger before making an excuse to leave.

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