nervous - Story 92113 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the helmet felt heavier than usual on his head. He adjusted it again and again, fiddling with the chin strap. The quarterback called the play, and he tightened his grip on the laces.

He glanced at the opposing line, a wall of bulky shoulders and grim faces. The pressure in his ears made it difficult to hear the commands. His mouth was dry, his tongue feeling thick and unwieldy. He felt a cold prickle of unease crawl up his spine.

The snap came. He took a stuttering breath and bolted forward, into the maelstrom of bodies.

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