nervous - Story 92007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt suffocating. The air hung thick with anticipation. Isabella kept her gaze fixed on the mahogany table in front of her. She could feel the pulse in her throat, a frantic drumming against her skin. The defendant, a man who had tattooed her "Celestial Dance" onto his chest without her permission, sat opposite her.

She had spent months preparing for this moment. Yet, as the judge entered, her carefully crafted arguments dissolved into a jumbled mess in her mind.

She took a slow, deliberate breath, trying to regain control. The lawyer gave her a small, reassuring nod.

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