nervous - Story 92390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The carnival was a cacophony of noise and light. Emily's mouth was dry, her breath shallow. She kept touching her hair, making sure it looked perfect. She'd chosen this place to showcase her fun side. Her whole body felt prickly.

She spotted him by the carousel, laughing with another woman. The woman was the barista from his local cafe. The woman he'd spoken about "just being a good friend".

Emily's carefully constructed image of herself dissolved. Her vision blurred, and she felt a sudden urge to scream. The music seemed to amplify her internal chaos.

He saw her and his face turned ashen. "Oh, my god," he whispered. "Emily, this is…" He trailed off, the carnival noise deafening her.

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