nervous - Story 92384 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall felt stuffy and crowded. Ethan adjusted his tie, feeling the unfamiliar tightness around his neck. He kept taking deep breaths, trying to appear nonchalant, but his chest felt constricted. He’d meticulously planned this evening, a romantic gesture for Sarah. Now, he wasn't sure he could go through with it.

He spotted her. A flash of red hair bobbing in the crowd. The woman with the green eyes. The woman from the coffee shop. The woman with the same ticket as him.

A man, tall and broad-shouldered, appeared beside her. He leaned in and kissed her. Ethan felt a coldness spread through him. The program slipped from his grasp and fell to the floor, forgotten.

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