nervous - Story 92657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flashing cursor on the blank email screen seemed to mock him. Michael had just texted his therapist, “I think I have a serious crush on you.” It was supposed to go to his coworker, Jessica, with the intention of playfully flirting. The message was still on the screen, a glaring mistake.

He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging strands. The room spun. He imagined the therapist's reaction. Would she be weirded out? Concerned? He felt a wave of shame wash over him.

He was suddenly acutely aware of every discomfort he had in his body. He imagined the upcoming therapy session. He wished the earth would swallow him whole.

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