nervous - Story 92517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locker room felt like a tomb. Chris ran his hand over his close-cropped hair, feeling the goosebumps crawl across his skin. He avoided eye contact with his teammates, all of them silent, sensing the impending doom. He pretended to retie his shoelaces again and again.

He knew what was coming. The whispers, the way the coach had been avoiding him in practice, the tightening of the muscles in his jaw whenever they met. He’d tried to ignore the premonition, but it had grown into a palpable weight. The damp, metallic smell of the locker room intensified, making him queasy.

The coach’s voice crackled over the intercom. Chris’s stomach lurched.

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