nervous - Story 92617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant music and the general air of merriment grated on him. He kept replaying the opening line of his speech in his mind. The lights of the ballroom seemed too bright, the laughter too loud. He couldn’t shake the feeling of dread.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm the rapid hammering against his ribs. He felt a growing urgency to escape. He looked to his left, and saw his father smiling at him, with a look of anticipation. He wanted to do this for him.

The emcee was now motioning toward him. He rose, feeling as though he was moving in slow motion.

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