nervous - Story 92619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked at his food, barely tasting it. The room's festive atmosphere, with its balloons and streamers, seemed to mock his internal struggle. He felt a tightening in his stomach. He was having trouble focusing.

He glanced at his watch every few seconds. He didn't think he could physically make it. He was not prepared.

His best friend, sitting next to him, gave him a supportive squeeze on the arm. The emcee was announcing him. He took a fortifying breath, and walked towards the stage, feeling like he was walking into quicksand.

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