nervous - Story 92733 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windowpane, mirroring the storm brewing inside Chloe. She traced a circle with her finger on the condensation, the glass cold against her skin. The silence in the coffee shop felt thick, suffocating. Across the small table, Sam was chattering about the new job, about the excitement of the move, the adventure.

Her own responses felt hollow, forced. She took a long, slow sip of her latte, the warmth doing little to soothe the chill that had settled in her bones. She couldn't fathom the distance between them.

The waitress came and cleared their cups, then asked, "Are you two ready for the bill?" The words sounded so final, cutting through the silence like a knife. Chloe wished the waitress would just leave them alone.

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