nervous - Story 92629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the end of the school day. He was tired. “Ms. Jones is now following you.” Aaron’s shoulders slumped. He felt a sudden prickling sensation at the base of his neck.

He considered deleting his entire account. He felt vulnerable. He wondered if his performance in PE class had been… noticed. He could feel his heart beat, fast and uneven.

He considered pretending he didn't know. He decided to walk home via a different route, avoiding any chance of a chance encounter. He felt like he couldn’t breathe. He hoped this wasn’t going to change anything.

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