nervous - Story 92058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hated the smell of the pawn shop, a pungent mix of decay and something vaguely metallic. He clutched the crumpled photo in his hand, the edges softened with wear, his knuckles white. The image felt so fragile. He tugged at his collar, his shirt suddenly too tight.

“Something for you?” The shopkeeper, a middle-aged man with a receding hairline, studied him with an appraising look.

“I… I’m looking for a ring.” His voice was a bare whisper. He felt a bead of sweat trickle down his temple. He prayed this was the right place. He prayed he was doing the right thing.

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