nervous - Story 92387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bar was dark, the music a low thrumming beat. James felt his pulse quicken, a frantic rhythm against his ribs. He felt like he'd been punched. He kept fiddling with the straw in his drink, the sugary taste suddenly repulsive. Tonight, he needed to make a good impression.

The door opened and in she came, her face flushed, her hair cascading down her shoulders. And beside her, another man, a man he recognized. The man from the gym. The man who'd been talking to *her* on the phone last week.

He felt his face flush. He needed to leave, to disappear, but his legs wouldn't move. She saw him and her eyes widened.

"Um," she stammered. "James, this is… well, this is Daniel."

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