nervous - Story 92563 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you sure this is okay, Dad?" Sarah asked, her voice barely a whisper. Her father, busy setting up the barbecue, glanced at her with a reassuring smile. Her friend, Emily, was also having a birthday party today. The thought alone made her palms begin to perspire.

She’d spent months saving up for this, scrimping and saving to create a special day. She'd chosen a theme, ordered custom decorations, and even booked a magician. But what if everyone chose to go to Emily's instead?

Sarah ran a hand through her hair, smoothing it down repeatedly. The scent of grilling burgers filled the air, but she couldn't bring herself to eat. She felt a knot tighten in her chest, a physical manifestation of her apprehension. Would they even enjoy the magician?

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