nervous - Story 92689 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was silent, save for the rhythmic tapping of Eleanor’s pen. She watched her daughter, Chloe, cross-examine a witness with a poise that made Eleanor's own stomach clench. Chloe had chosen the same path, and was a natural. Eleanor had practiced, and knew the nuances of law.

Eleanor shifted in her seat. Her own legal career had been a slow, steady climb. She had climbed through the ranks, enduring struggles and setbacks. Chloe's ascent felt…different.

Chloe spoke with such assurance and skill. The words flowed effortlessly, the arguments compelling. Eleanor felt a faint ache behind her eyes, and a sudden desire to leave the room.

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