nervous - Story 92512 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah ran her hand through her already messy ponytail. The gym was unusually quiet, the echoes of yesterday's practice now replaced by an oppressive silence. Her heart hammered against her ribs as she sat on the bleachers, watching Coach Miller pace in front of his office. She’d always been a good player, a dedicated player, but something had shifted in the last few weeks.

A wave of heat washed over her, and she tugged at the collar of her jersey. She chewed on her lower lip, tasting the metallic tang of fear. The other girls gave her furtive glances, their whispers carrying across the court. She knew what they were thinking, or at least, she suspected.

The door to the office opened, and Coach Miller called her name. The world seemed to tilt on its axis for a moment, and her legs felt like lead.

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