nervous - Story 92926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was a vast, echoing space. Sarah shifted in her seat, the scratchy fabric of the suit uncomfortable against her skin. This was the most important moment, and the thought made her want to run. She stared out the window.

The judge cleared his throat. "Mr. Evans, will you please approach the stand?" She watched the man walk towards the podium. He took a deep breath. She knew the feeling. The man's face turned pale. She had the same condition as him!

She knew the man's story. She knew the court case.

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