nervous - Story 92174 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the restaurant felt thick, and the clinking of silverware grated on Ben's ears. He could barely taste the pasta he’d ordered, his appetite completely gone. Across from him, Emily, her usual bubbly self, seemed subdued.

Earlier that day, he’d seen a colleague from his actual job—an accountant—leaving the opulent office of a supposed interior design firm, where Emily had told him she worked. He'd followed him, and discovered a string of companies connected to the office, including the one Emily worked at. It was shady at best.

She picked at her food, avoiding his gaze. "So," she began, her voice tight, "how was your day?"

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