nervous - Story 92296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The decorations were already up, balloons bobbing merrily in the breeze. He stood back, admiring the colorful display, but the bright hues suddenly seemed garish, mocking. His hands were clasped so tightly that his knuckles were white. He was waiting by the lake. This was supposed to be perfect.

His sister arrived, her face pale, her eyes filled with an unspoken apology. She avoided his gaze.

"They called," she said softly, her voice wavering. "They had to call it off."

He stared at the balloons, a wave of nausea washing over him. The party felt like it was cancelled a long time ago.

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