nervous - Story 92056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the grimy window of the pawn shop, the reflection of the street lights blurring the display of tarnished silver and glittering, cheap jewels. His palms were slick. He rubbed them against his jeans, a futile attempt to calm himself. He felt a wave of dizziness wash over him.

"You alright, mate?" A gruff voice startled him. He jumped, turning to face the shop owner, a man with a missing tooth and a shrewd gaze. He felt a blush creep up his neck.

“Yeah, fine.” He mumbled, avoiding the shop owner’s gaze. “Just… browsing.” He knew he wasn't fooling anyone.

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