nervous - Story 92413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He pushed the door open to the cafe, his throat tight. Sunlight streamed through the windows, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. He tried to focus on ordering his coffee, but the words felt trapped somewhere between his teeth.

The barista asked him a question, and he stammered a response, his voice barely above a whisper. He kept the wallet tucked firmly beneath his jacket, its presence a heavy anchor. He felt the need to flee.

He found a secluded table and sat down, carefully placing the wallet on the table. He felt a constant internal buzz, an electric current running through him. He glanced over his shoulder. Someone was watching him.

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