nervous - Story 92295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He adjusted his tie for the tenth time, the silk feeling constricting around his neck. The door of the restaurant loomed before him, a portal to a carefully orchestrated evening. He took a deep breath, trying to steady the frantic rhythm of his heart, and reached for the handle.

The hostess met him at the door. "Good evening, sir. Do you have a reservation?"

"Yes, under... my name." He swallowed, his voice barely a whisper. He wanted to go home now.

The hostess frowned, consulting her tablet. "I'm so sorry, sir, but there seems to be a mix-up. Your reservation was..." she paused, looking at him with pitying eyes, "canceled."

He felt the world tilt on its axis.

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