nervous - Story 92922 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his already messy hair, leaving it standing on end. Liam stood in the crowded coffee shop, the noise of the grinders and clatter of mugs doing nothing to calm the flutter in his chest. He was supposed to meet someone here. Someone else who understood.

His gaze scanned the room repeatedly, searching for a face that matched the description the doctor gave. He felt the familiar tingling in his fingertips, a prelude to a flare-up. Liam shifted his weight from one foot to the other.

A woman with fiery red hair and a peculiar, almost iridescent, patch of skin on her cheek, noticed him. She caught his eye and gave a small, tentative smile. He felt a wave of relief wash over him, followed by a surge of something else entirely. He walked toward her, and the distance felt like an eternity.

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