nervous - Story 92510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chef, Marco, carefully arranged the ingredients on his outdoor grill. He’d planned a special meal, a celebration. Then he heard the distinct sound of a bark, followed by the sound of paws. The beagle, Gus, was notorious for sniffing around the barbecue.

His jaw tightened. He glanced at the fence. He hated any kind of disruption. He’d spent hours preparing, and the thought of another incident, another messy situation, caused a knot to form in his stomach.

He quickly grabbed his tongs, ready for action. He had to protect his food. He moved to the grill and waited.

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