nervous - Story 92980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tap-tap-tapping on the glass door made James jump. He spun around, and his vision immediately locked on his neighbor, Mr. Davis. He blinked repeatedly. He knew what was coming.

Mr. Davis gestured expansively at the empty space beside the house, explaining his plan for a vegetable garden. James felt a prickling sensation begin at the back of his neck.

He looked everywhere but at Mr. Davis's face, fixing his gaze on the swirling patterns of the wallpaper. The thought of sharing, the loss of control over his space, filled him with a strong unease.

He managed a weak smile. "Yes, go ahead," he said, hoping his voice sounded normal. The words felt heavy on his tongue.

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