nervous - Story 92501 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The mail carrier, Mrs. Gable, clutched her satchel a little tighter as she approached the Anderson's house. Her pace slowed involuntarily. She'd seen that golden retriever, Buster, escape twice this week, and the thought of another chase, another series of yelps and attempted captures, made her chest feel tight. The screen door creaked open, and a little girl's voice called out, “Mail lady!” Mrs. Gable forced a smile.

“Good morning, sweetie,” she replied, her voice sounding a tad thin. She deposited the stack of envelopes into the box, casting quick glances around for any sign of a furry escape artist. Her fingers drummed against the metal as she waited, every shadow seeming to shift and morph.

The girl skipped off, and Mrs. Gable took a step back, ready to retreat. Then, she saw it: a flash of gold near the rose bushes. Her breath hitched.

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