nervous - Story 92776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the ornate, gilded letter opener on the desk, its cold metal reflecting the harsh fluorescent lights. Sarah, his sister, remained stoic, her gaze fixed on the lawyer, who was speaking in a monotonous drone. He felt a flutter in his chest, a rapid, erratic rhythm. They were here to hear the reading of their aunt’s will, a woman they barely knew.

Sarah was left a substantial inheritance – a modern art gallery and a priceless collection of paintings. He was given a single, tarnished silver locket containing a faded photograph. He closed his eyes. The room seemed to tilt.

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