nervous - Story 92883 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ringing phone startled her, making her jump. It was Mr. Peterson, her neighbor, a man she’d always considered to be a simple carpenter. He wanted to “discuss a project.” She felt a strange tingling in her fingertips as she agreed to meet him.

She avoided looking at the vintage sports car parked in Mr. Peterson’s driveway when she arrived. A tremor ran through her as she walked to the door.

He greeted her with a warm smile, but her heart raced. She couldn't shake the feeling of being utterly out of place, even before she entered the opulent, newly renovated interior. It was a very bad omen.

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