nervous - Story 92557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. John avoided making eye contact with his roommate, Kevin, who was beaming. Kevin had found a local shelter and was convinced they should adopt a dog.

He took a bite of his sandwich, each chew a deliberate attempt to appear casual. The thought of walks in all weather conditions, the constant training, the potential for destructive behavior filled him with a quiet panic.

"We could call him 'Buddy'!" Kevin announced cheerfully. John choked on his food, the sudden burst of enthusiasm making him gasp for air.

He swallowed hard and pushed his plate away, suddenly losing his appetite. The dog's potential for mischief seemed to loom large in his mind.

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