nervous - Story 92068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of chlorine hung heavy in the air of the pool. David adjusted his goggles, trying to focus on the black line at the bottom. He felt a tremor in his hands as he walked towards the lane. He was scheduled for a swim meet and was trying to distract himself.

He dove in, but his mind wasn't on the water. It was back on the scholarship decision email he had received moments before practice. He had been putting off checking the email, but he knew he must.

He pulled himself from the pool, his limbs heavy. He gripped the edge, his knuckles white. The words on the email, printed on his mind, echoed in his brain.

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