nervous - Story 92168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band’s music seemed to intensify the hammering in Liam's chest. He felt like a coiled spring, ready to snap. He had anticipated this moment, rehearsed what he would say, but now, face to face with her, the words evaporated.

He saw her across the room, talking to another guest. Her hair was different, her dress a color he'd never seen her wear. His stomach lurched. He felt a sudden, urgent need to leave.

He took another sip of his drink, hoping the alcohol would help. It didn’t. He stared into his glass, pretending to be absorbed in the swirling ice cubes. His grip tightened on the stem.

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