nervous - Story 92115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The track meet was in a few minutes. He was usually a sprinter, but his coach wanted him to try the long jump today. He bounced on the balls of his feet, feeling an uncontrollable urge to keep moving.

He looked over at the sand pit, a vast emptiness that seemed to mock his abilities. The thought of running down the runway and leaping into it made his palms itch.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm the rapid rhythm of his pulse. He saw the other jumpers gathering, their faces set with focused determination. He felt utterly out of place.

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