nervous - Story 92568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you sure this is a good idea, Mom?” Leo mumbled, his voice hushed. His mother, beaming, busied herself with the final decorations. His friend, Kevin, had planned his party for the same day. He couldn't shake the sensation of being ill-prepared.

He knew she'd spent a great deal of time and effort planning this day. He had to show a brave face, even if he felt a deep unease. He ran a hand through his hair, trying to calm the feeling that swirled inside him.

The first guests were due any minute, and his throat felt tight, his stomach churning. He could only hope that enough people showed up to make his mother happy.

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