nervous - Story 92624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny notification icon brought a sudden jolt. "Ms. Chen is now following you." Daniel stared at the screen, the image of his history teacher's profile burned into his mind. He wasn't particularly good at history.

He immediately started to analyze every interaction, every assignment handed in, every answer he'd given in class. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes. He wished he'd been more attentive.

He pulled his sleeves down, covering his hands. He didn't want her to see him. He pictured her face in his mind, and all he could see was a silent, unreadable expression. He didn’t want to go to school tomorrow, not at all.

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