nervous - Story 92589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David fiddled with the volume on his headphones, trying to drown out the chatter of the party. He’d snuck into the back room, away from the revelry, trying to buy some time. He was expecting it, he knew it was coming. His song. Performed by a band of young people. He'd never met them, but they were about to bring his creation back to life. He couldn't shake this feeling of… vulnerability. He pressed his lips together, a tight, thin line.

He heard the first notes and a wave of memories washed over him. He found himself incapable of moving.

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