nervous - Story 92504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer, Mr. Harding, was already late for his appointment. He checked his watch for the tenth time in as many minutes. He always hurried, but the thought of facing the owner of the Siberian husky, Loki, filled him with a certain dread. Loki had a habit of tearing through his lawn and, worse, leaving its calling card everywhere.

He could feel his pulse quickening as he approached his car, eyes darting from side to side. The gravel crunched under his feet, and he stopped suddenly. The dog wasn't visible, but he could *feel* its presence somehow. He hated confrontations, and the prospect of arguing with the husky's owner, known for his fiery temper, had him frozen in place.

He unlocked his car and got in fast, relieved to have his own space.

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