nervous - Story 92565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first guest arrived. Then another. Then a few more. Amelia plastered a smile on her face, but inside, her core felt hollow. Her mind was a whirlwind of worry. Her twin sister, Olivia, was also celebrating her birthday today.

She’d spent ages hand-making all of the decorations, creating a personalized scavenger hunt, and ordering a custom cake. The thought of all the effort going to waste, of her party being a flop, weighed heavily on her.

Her smile faltered slightly as she greeted each guest, her voice a little too high-pitched. She kept glancing at the door, expecting a mass exodus. She tried to appear lighthearted, but inside, a coldness spread through her.

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