nervous - Story 92706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bead of sweat trickled down Leo's temple. He kept glancing at the clock, each second stretching into an eternity. He had a big day ahead.

He saw Maya, the new graphic designer, coming towards him. She was carrying a stack of files. "Leo, can you spare a minute? I'm having trouble with this layout."

He took a breath. "Sure." He tried to sound casual.

As she came closer, her smile faltered. “Leo… Did you… did you go to Camp Starbright?” Her eyes widened. His heart hammered in his chest.

The memory of the disastrous talent show flashed before his eyes. He tried to think of a graceful answer.

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