nervous - Story 92388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The seaside restaurant smelled of salt and fried food. Maya felt a heavy weight in her chest. She kept shifting in her seat, feeling exposed and vulnerable. This date was a mistake, she knew it. The sea air did little to calm her agitated mind.

She saw him approach, arm-in-arm with another woman. She knew the other woman. The one from the bookshop. The one he’d said he was helping with a project.

Her carefully constructed facade of contentment crumbled. She felt a burning sensation in her cheeks. The waves crashed against the shore, mirroring the tempest within her.

He froze when he saw her. The other woman turned, her eyes narrowed.

"Is that… Sarah?" the woman said quietly.

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