nervous - Story 92534 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The auditorium felt stifling. Sweat slicked down Mateo's back as he waited, the official letter clutched tight in his hand. He’d already read it a dozen times, each reading making the pit in his stomach deepen.

He kept shifting his weight, the polished floor cold beneath his feet. The presentation was scheduled to start soon, and he knew he would be called up on stage. He’d be recognized, honored. But for what?

He felt a sudden urge to flee, to disappear. The spotlight, usually a source of pride, now felt like a scorching glare. How was he supposed to celebrate an accomplishment that wasn’t really his?

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