nervous - Story 92073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just be cool, Liam," he muttered to himself, adjusting his collar in the reflection of the bus window. The meeting point, the local park, felt miles away. The city's usual bustle seemed to fade as he replayed every single online conversation with Chloe in his memory.

He knew she was coming. He’d seen her profile picture countless times. He’d even picked out a specific bench, near the willow tree, where he hoped they could sit and talk. His palms were clammy.

He wanted to run, to disappear. But the thought of her waiting, of the potential connection they’d built online, held him rooted to the spot. He got off the bus, taking deep breaths and starting towards the green grass.

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