nervous - Story 92466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, about the silver candlesticks…" Her mother's voice trailed off, the words hanging in the air like a discordant note. I picked at a loose thread on the tablecloth, my gaze fixed on the intricate embroidery.

The dining room, usually filled with laughter and the aroma of home-cooked meals, was subdued. The sunlight, streaming through the window, seemed to highlight the dust motes dancing in the air. My throat felt tight.

The candlesticks, a wedding gift to my grandparents, gleamed on the sideboard. My mother was explaining about their financial situation, her voice trembling slightly. I wanted to scream, to protest, but the words caught in my throat, a knot of resistance.

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