nervous - Story 92268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She chewed the inside of her cheek, a habit she'd developed during moments of high stress. The room was stuffy, filled with the aroma of disinfectant and the metallic tang of fear. The other swimmers sat in a close huddle, whispering quietly amongst themselves. Her vision blurred, and her hearing was muffled.

The coach called out the list, each name a weight lifted from her shoulders... or not. Her stomach felt like a knotted rope. A wave of heat washed over her.

The names continued, slowly, deliberately. She wasn't called. The room began to spin.

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