nervous - Story 92465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office was oppressively formal, the leather furniture cold beneath his touch. He shifted in his seat, his leg bouncing involuntarily. His cousin, Mark, cleared his throat, the sound amplified in the hushed space.

“The pocket watch… the family timepiece…” Mark said, his voice hesitant.

He ran a hand over his face, as if trying to erase the last few hours. His grandfather had carried that watch throughout his life, and now, it was to be sold. He felt the blood draining from his face.

The lawyer droned on, speaking in detached, legal jargon. He couldn’t focus. The words seemed to swirl around him, meaningless. He kept seeing his grandfather's face, the twinkle in his eye as he’d showed him the watch.

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