nervous - Story 92566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He checked his watch again. And again. And again. Ben couldn’t sit still. He kept readjusting the decorations, even though they were perfectly aligned. His friend, Alex, had also decided to have his party on the same day.

He'd meticulously planned his every move, choosing a specific venue and sending out carefully crafted invitations weeks ago. This was a day he'd looked forward to since the last birthday. He wanted everything to be flawless.

A tremor ran through him as he surveyed the scene. His heart hammered in his chest. What if everyone preferred Alex's party? The thought of potential disappointment sent a shiver down his spine.

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