nervous - Story 92494 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt cavernous, the polished wood floor reflecting the harsh fluorescent lights. Daniel's stomach churned, a cold, unfamiliar knot. He ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, leaving it standing on end. He'd imagined this moment countless times, but never with this leaden dread. The lawyer's words, a precise recitation of legal jargon, echoed in the vast space. Daniel watched the other side's lawyer, a man who seemed impossibly calm, and the pit in his stomach grew deeper.

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