nervous - Story 92116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Ethan, we need you on defense.” The words echoed in the hockey rink. Ethan’s usual spot was on the left wing. Now, he’s being asked to defend. The announcement sent a cold shiver down his spine.

His stick felt heavy in his hands. He took a long, slow skate towards the blue line, feeling the ice beneath him seem slick and treacherous. He could feel his breathing quicken.

The puck was dropped, and the play began. His mind raced, replaying every mistake he’d ever made in practice. He felt exposed, vulnerable, and wholly unprepared.

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