nervous - Story 92118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright lights of the stadium seemed to intensify, focusing on him. His normally steady hands were trembling as he gripped the golf club. He'd always been a fairway player, but now he was on the green.

The green felt vast and unforgiving. He took a breath, trying to slow the swirling chaos in his head. He lined up the shot, but the ball seemed to wobble in front of his eyes.

He swung. The impact of the club on the ball felt jarring, the result a mystery. He held his breath as the ball rolled, praying he wouldn't make a fool of himself.

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