nervous - Story 92567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The caterers arrived, their cheerful greetings grating on Clara's ears. She felt a tightening in her chest. Everything had to be perfect. Today was her birthday, but it was also the day of her ex-boyfriend, Mark's, birthday celebration.

She forced a smile, chatting brightly with the caterers while secretly assessing the placement of the tables. The color drained from her face as she noticed the time. It was getting closer to the time when people would choose which party they would attend.

She kept tugging at the sleeve of her dress, her breathing shallow. She'd spent so much time and money on this. The possibility of failure felt like a heavy weight pressing down on 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