nervous - Story 92627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The little message, "Mr. Olsen is now following you," appeared on her phone. Olivia felt a strange fluttering in her chest. She had a crush on her social studies teacher.

She quickly checked her posts, a wave of relief washing over her. Nothing too embarrassing. But, still, the idea of him seeing her online brought a rush of both excitement and apprehension. She fidgeted in her seat.

She spent the next hour meticulously curating her profile, carefully selecting what she wanted him to see. She even considered changing her profile picture. The feeling wouldn't leave her, making her heart skip a beat with every thought of him.

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