nervous - Story 92576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall was a sea of bodies, a swirling tide of anticipation and shared excitement. He tried to lose himself in the pre-show buzz, but the feeling of foreboding tightened its grip around him. He'd found her on social media.

When the lights dimmed, and the music swelled, he spotted her near the front. He tried to move closer.

During a break, he managed to maneuver his way through the crowd. "Emily?" he called out, hoping to be heard over the rising chatter.

She turned, her eyes wide. "I don't know you," she said, before turning back to the stage.

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