nervous - Story 92269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection in the locker, his face pale and drawn. His hands were clenched so tightly that his nails dug into his palms. The silence in the room was almost unbearable. He could feel his heart hammering a frantic rhythm against his ribs. The air seemed to be getting thinner.

Coach Johnson cleared his throat and began to read off the list. The names fell like stones. He closed his eyes, bracing himself.

The announcements continued. His name was not read. A wave of numbness washed over him.

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