nervous - Story 92574 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He fiddled with the cap of his pen, clicking it repeatedly, a rhythmic tic that did nothing to calm the chaos brewing inside. The library was quiet, the silence almost oppressive, but it didn't help. He had spotted her near the history section, and he was trying to approach her. He imagined what he was going to say and rehearsed it repeatedly, but his mind seemed to be rebelling and forgetting it all immediately.

He took a deep breath, and finally moved.

She looked up, a book held open in her hands. She regarded him with a polite, vacant expression.

"Sarah?" he ventured, his voice a low rumble.

She shook her head, a slight frown creasing her brow. "I'm sorry, do I know you?"

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