nervous - Story 92163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is just peachy," Clara muttered under her breath, her voice barely a whisper. She smoothed down her dress, the fabric feeling stiff and uncomfortable against her skin. The wedding, beautifully decorated with fairy lights and rustic charm, suddenly seemed like a prison.

He was standing near the buffet table, looking as effortlessly handsome as she remembered. She felt her face tighten, a involuntary grimace. She clenched her hands into fists, willing herself not to bolt. Her breath hitched.

Her friend, Mark, patted her arm. “You okay? You look… tense.” Clara managed a weak laugh. "Fine! Just, uh, admiring the canapés." She grabbed a mini quiche, hoping the act of eating would distract her from the situation.

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