nervous - Story 92930 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been to a party in years. The noise, the lights, the crowds – it all felt like too much. But this was different. He was told there would be others. He had to go.

The music pulsed in his ears as he stepped inside. He immediately felt a wave of dizziness. He grabbed a glass of water, desperately trying to calm himself. He saw it. The peculiar discoloration on the arm, identical to his own.

He slowly walked towards the person, the room seeming to shrink around them. He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs. He felt the same thing.

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