nervous - Story 92071 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bead of sweat trickled down Amelia's temple as she stared at the coffee shop. The online friend, Leo, had suggested this place. She clutched her phone, her knuckles white. She’d spent months chatting with him, sharing secrets, laughing at his terrible jokes. But the reality of *meeting* him... her stomach did a somersault.

Her hand trembled as she reached for the door handle. She forced a smile, rehearsing what she might say. “Hey, Leo? It’s Amelia.” Or maybe, “Wow, this place looks great, right?” The words felt clumsy in her mind.

The bell above the door chimed as she entered, and her breath hitched. The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled her lungs, and she briefly forgot to breathe as she scanned the room for a familiar face, a friendly smile, a clue to what was waiting for her.

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