nervous - Story 92077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small Italian restaurant felt warm and inviting, but the atmosphere did nothing to calm Michael's racing thoughts. He was supposed to meet Sophie there. He was late, and his stomach churned with a mixture of excitement and dread.

He ran his hand through his hair, smoothing down the unruly strands. He'd imagined this meeting a thousand times. But now that it was real, he felt a knot of tension tighten in his gut.

He spotted a familiar face near the back, and his breath caught. He paused at the edge of the dining room. He didn't want to make a bad impression, or worse, to reveal his awkwardness.

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