nervous - Story 92584 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From his perch in the sound booth, Daniel gripped the mixing console. His breathing was shallow, his chest feeling tight. He’d signed over the rights to the song years ago, and yet, hearing it again brought a fresh wave of…something. An unfamiliar tightness seized his jaw, and he forced a smile at the sound engineer, who was oblivious to the turmoil brewing inside him.

He hadn't been to a concert in ages. But here he was, in a crowded auditorium, ready to hear his past. The introduction began. He felt a light tremor in his legs as he waited for the song's opening chords.

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