nervous - Story 92561 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya chewed the inside of her cheek as she surveyed the garden. Balloons were strewn across the lawn, vibrant against the green. Everything looked perfect, just as she'd envisioned. Except... today was also Chloe's birthday, and Chloe had decided to throw a party too. A wave of ice slithered down Maya’s spine.

Her hands fidgeted with the hem of her dress. She’d spent weeks planning this, and now, a deep pit formed in her stomach. Would anyone even show up? She glanced at the guest list, then back at the empty patio furniture. Maybe she should have just gone with Chloe’s suggestion and celebrated together.

A small smile threatened to break through as she imagined a shared cake and silly games. But then she remembered the hours spent choosing the theme, the color scheme, the invitations. Everything was meticulously planned. This was *her* party, wasn't it?

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