nervous - Story 92223 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope felt strangely heavy in David's hand. He'd found it tucked away in his late mother's desk. The handwriting, instantly recognizable, screamed *David's School Stuff*. His palms felt slick as he slowly opened it. He’d postponed this for a week.

He didn't want to know. He didn't want to see. His shoulders felt tight, and he massaged them unconsciously as he unfolded the first sheet.

It was his first-grade "All About Me" project. A crudely drawn self-portrait. He winced. Below the drawing, his mother had written: “So proud of my boy!” His throat constricted.

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