nervous - Story 92683 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the cello felt heavy on David’s shoulders. He watched his daughter, Sarah, tune her violin, her brow furrowed in concentration. He used to find the process relaxing, meditative. Now, seeing Sarah’s dedication, he felt a prickle of discomfort.

“Ready, Dad?” Sarah asked, her voice bright. He used to be the one giving lessons. He thought it was what he'd wanted.

David’s palms felt clammy. His mouth was dry, and he needed a drink of water. He could barely watch Sarah’s solo. He was suddenly overwhelmed. His stomach churned. He watched her begin to play, then he shut his eyes.

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