nervous - Story 92385 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The art gallery was pretentious and hushed. Sarah felt a tremor run through her. She ran her hands over her arms to alleviate the chill, but it was coming from within. She kept turning to look at the entrance, expecting, dreading, the arrival of David.

She saw him. Walking towards her with a woman she recognized. The woman from yoga class. The woman who David had introduced as "a friend." The woman with the perfectly sculpted eyebrows.

David smiled, but it didn't reach his eyes. "Oh," he said, his voice clipped. "Sarah, you know… Emily, right?"

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