nervous - Story 92428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation felt like a physical weight in Kevin's pocket. He kept touching it, then quickly pulling his hand away, as if it were burning him. He felt the familiar constriction in his chest, the feeling of being wound too tightly. It was something he had not felt in years.

He found himself avoiding eye contact with people, unable to settle his mind. He kept picking at a loose thread on his jacket. He didn't want to go, didn't want to see anyone. He felt like he wanted to hide under a rock.

He thought, maybe he should just move.

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