nervous - Story 92114 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"We need you at the net, Liam," the volleyball coach had said, his voice unusually grave. Libero was his specialty. Now, he was being asked to block. His usual feeling of certainty evaporated.

His legs felt unsteady as he stood at the net, towering over the other players, suddenly feeling like a clumsy giant. He could feel the pounding of his heart in his throat.

He saw the opposing hitter approach, a blur of motion. His arms lifted to block, but his muscles felt stiff, his movements slow and awkward. He wished he could disappear.

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