nervous - Story 92078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace was a feast for the senses, but all Elias could focus on was his pounding heart. He felt like the air had become thick and heavy, making it hard to breathe. The scent of spices and fresh produce usually excited him, but today, they felt overwhelming.

He kept adjusting his backpack strap, trying to distract himself. He knew she was here. They had arranged to meet near the fountain. He could see it, a shimmering beacon, in the distance.

His throat felt dry, and he swallowed hard. He took another step forward, feeling a curious combination of eagerness and hesitancy bubble up inside him. He hoped that she would be as amazing as she seemed online.

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