nervous - Story 92628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in the middle of a study session. "Mr. Bell is now following you." A wave of heat washed over Michael. He was usually the class clown, making jokes and disrupting lessons.

He scrambled through his feed, a cold dread washing over him. Would he be reprimanded? He felt a sudden, profound sense of self-consciousness. He chewed on his thumbnail.

The upcoming history test suddenly felt a million times harder. He couldn't shake the feeling of being scrutinized. He wished he could disappear. He was completely thrown off by the situation.

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