nervous - Story 92083 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you sure about this, honey?" Sarah asked, her voice barely a whisper. She twisted the ring on her finger, a nervous habit that had returned with a vengeance this morning. The air tasted thick and heavy, like a storm was brewing.

David, oblivious, was already on his knees, examining the proposed post line. His enthusiasm seemed to amplify the unease within her. She tried to appear engaged, nodding, but her gaze kept darting towards the bordering property, now a blank canvas of potential upheaval.

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