nervous - Story 92518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air outside the principal's office seemed to shimmer with heat. He ran his hand over his forehead, trying to wipe away the sheen of sweat, but it only seemed to make things worse. He had always been told to look the part. Now, the suit felt like a suffocating shell.

His father had sacrificed so much. He had always dreamt that this was his path. He had a vision of continuing the legacy. Now, the dream seemed to be crumbling. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the rapid, frantic beat of his heart.

He heard the click of the lock. He straightened his tie and went inside.

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