nervous - Story 92415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office was too opulent, the leather chairs too plush. She felt out of place, a trespasser. She shifted in her seat, her gaze darting from the portrait of the stern-faced man on the wall to the ornate desk.

She had to tell him. But she also had to find a way to explain this discovery. It would be easier to just leave.

She opened her mouth to speak, but the words felt caught in her throat. She glanced at the briefcase beside her, which held the wallet. It’s presence made her skin crawl.

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