nervous - Story 92059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The door of the pawn shop slammed shut behind her, the sound echoing in the stillness. A shiver ran down her spine, even though the shop was stiflingly warm. She stared at the displays, overwhelmed by the sheer volume of glittering objects. She felt an overwhelming sense of vulnerability.

“What can I do for you?” The shopkeeper, a man with a tattooed arm, leaned against the counter, his gaze unwavering.

“I… I’m looking for a ring.” She felt the color drain from her face. She closed her eyes for a split second, then opened them, determined. Her stomach churned.

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