nervous - Story 92270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to block out the scene unfolding before her. The field was still, the air pregnant with unspoken words. Her chest felt constricted, as if a weight was pressing down on her. A shiver ran through her, despite the warmth of the late afternoon sun. Her fingers fidgeted with the hem of her jersey.

The coach, his face unreadable, began calling out the names of those selected. Each name was a pinprick, each pause a dagger. Her heart raced, a frantic drumbeat against her ribs.

The list shortened. Her name was not included. The world seemed to crumble around her.

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