nervous - Story 92054 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning in the pawn shop was failing, and the heat was oppressive. Sweat beaded on David’s forehead as he scanned the glittering displays. He shifted from foot to foot, the silence of the shop amplifying the pounding in his chest. His stomach lurched.

“Can I help you, sir?” The shopkeeper, a woman with a severe expression and thin lips, watched him with an unsettling intensity.

“Yes, um… engagement rings, specifically.” His voice cracked slightly. He stared at his hands, finding them shaking. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to bolt. He gripped the edge of the counter, anchoring himself.

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