nervous - Story 92170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The confetti cannons exploded as the happy couple took to the dance floor, and a wave of nausea rolled over James. He immediately felt a surge of heat rush up his neck. He felt exposed, as if the spotlight was directly on him.

He noticed her, her face barely visible amongst the crowd, but he knew her expression even from a distance. He quickly took another large sip of his wine, then set the glass down hard on the table.

He subtly began to move towards the edge of the dance floor, feigning interest in the wedding favors. His mind raced, calculating the shortest route to the exit. Each step felt like a monumental effort.

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