nervous - Story 92220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight room smelled of sweat and iron. He sat on a bench, the cold metal seeping into his clothes. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture doing little to alleviate the feeling that his chest was about to explode. They were due to discuss that football game, the one with the crucial play.

She walked in, her usual pep in her step, and made her way over to him. She began to laugh and said, "Remember when you missed that tackle?" He couldn't meet her eyes, knowing this conversation would be a minefield.

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