nervous - Story 92551 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment felt too small suddenly, the air thick with unspoken tension. Amelia chewed on her thumbnail, the chipped polish a testament to her current state. Liam was lounging on the couch, stroking his chin thoughtfully. The cat adoption website was open on the laptop balanced on his knees.

A bead of sweat trickled down Amelia's temple. She glanced at the clock – five minutes until Liam started talking about his desire for a feline companion again. The thought twisted her stomach into knots.

"So," Liam began, his voice surprisingly gentle, "I was thinking… Fluffy might enjoy the sunbeam in the living room." Amelia's hands clenched at her sides.

She fiddled with the loose thread on her jeans, her gaze darting around the room, avoiding Liam's. The imagined sound of claws on the hardwood floor was making her feel strange.

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