nervous - Story 92382 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael checked his watch for the tenth time in as many minutes. The tiny second hand seemed to mock him, crawling forward at an agonizingly slow pace. His palms were slick, and he wiped them surreptitiously on his jeans. This date felt different, heavier somehow. He knew deep down he should've just stayed in. He hadn't slept well the night before.

He saw him across the street, laughing with another guy. The man seemed to be smiling at the other, but his eyes told a different story. They met him halfway. He was wearing the same leather jacket as last week, the one Michael had complimented.

He got closer and he saw the other man's face. He knew that face. They'd been on a double date just last Friday. His stomach churned. He really wanted to go home.

"Liam?" the other man said, the smile falling from his face. "What are you doing here?"

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