nervous - Story 92505 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Hello?" Emily called out tentatively, peering through the gap in her fence. The poodle, Princess, had once again decided to take a stroll. Emily had already wasted twenty minutes trying to get her back, the little dog always darting away with glee.

Her voice had an edge as she repeated her greeting. She was already late getting ready for a date and this was an unwanted interruption. The thought of this situation had her arms feeling heavy.

"Princess," she tried, her voice softening, trying to lure the pampered dog with its favorite toy. She hoped it would be a quick rescue this time.

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