He was assigned to play opposite the star attacker. He, who usually played on the wing. His eyes darted around the court, assessing his new position. The anticipation of facing the opposing team's strongest player made his muscles tense.

The whistle blew, starting the match. He moved, his body feeling stiff and awkward. Every muscle strained, his breath catching in his throat.

He watched the star player approach, their movements fluid and graceful. He felt a wave of icy apprehension, wondering how he could possibly compete.

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:
worse0.229
trem0.203
😰0.203
😨0.201
ç·Šå¼µ0.200
Suppressed:
la-0.397
que-0.260
a-0.242
B-0.217
H-0.210