nervous - Story 92774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom echoed with the click of pens and the rustle of papers. Liam sat beside his sister, Maya, each of them a study in contrasting stillness. He kept his hands clasped tightly, as if to physically restrain the butterflies fluttering inside. Their father, a renowned inventor, had amassed a fortune, and now it was to be divided.

Maya, to Liam's astonishment, inherited a vast portfolio of stocks, bonds, and properties, ensuring her financial security for life. Liam, on the other hand, received a single, antique compass and a collection of his father's journals, filled with cryptic notes and sketches. He blinked, a cold wave washing over him. The air seemed to thin.

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