nervous - Story 92117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The referee's whistle blew, signaling the end of the first half. He jogged toward the sideline, stomach churning. The coach had informed him during halftime that he was to replace the injured goalie. He, the midfielder.

He pulled the jersey over his head, the fabric sticking to his sweaty skin. The pads felt heavy and cumbersome. His mouth felt like cotton.

He watched the second half unfold, heart pounding against his ribs, every movement, every pass, making him feel a knot of dread in his stomach. The net seemed impossibly wide, the opposing team's shots powerful.

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