nervous - Story 92575 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace was a maze of colors and sounds, a sensory overload that amplified her unease. She kept wiping her palms on her jeans. Finding him here, after all this time, felt both exhilarating and terrifying. She had worked herself up into a frenzy.

She saw him at a stall selling spices, haggling good-naturedly with the vendor. Her chest constricted.

She approached, her steps hesitant.

"Hey, um... Mark?" she managed.

He looked up, and his face was blank. "I don't think so."

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