nervous - Story 92463 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter lay open on the kitchen table, the crisp paper stark against the worn wood. Emily reread the sentence, her eyes blurring: “...I'm considering selling the painting." Her heart thudded a frantic beat in her chest.

She reached for her tea, her hand trembling so badly she nearly spilled the contents. The painting, her grandfather's landscape of the Scottish Highlands, hung in the dining room, a constant comfort. The vibrant greens and blues had always calmed her, and now she felt a profound sense of unease.

She thought of the auction house. The bright lights. The faces of strangers. The thought itself made her skin crawl. She closed her eyes, imagining the painting gone, a vacant space on the wall, and felt a cold wave wash over her.

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