nervous - Story 92167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the wedding decorations swam before Chloe's eyes. Each burst of laughter from the other guests felt like a deliberate taunt. She felt like an outsider, a ghost. She gripped her clutch bag so hard her knuckles ached.

She spotted Alex across the dance floor. He was twirling a woman she didn’t recognize, and laughing as they danced. Chloe’s breath caught in her throat. She found herself subconsciously backing up to be near the exit.

She heard someone call her name. It was another friend, Emily. “Chloe! You seem…” Emily paused, searching for a word. “Quiet.” Chloe tried to smile, but she could feel the corners of her mouth twitch.

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