The workshop was silent except for the rhythmic tapping of the potter's wheel. Sarah adjusted the clay, her hands trembling slightly. She’d received a message earlier that day, a link to a blog post. Her "Dancing Vase," her most celebrated work, was now a tattoo on someone's leg. She had been so flattered when she had read about it.

She had always dreamt of someone being touched by her art. But as she watched the clay spin on the wheel, a peculiar sensation coursed through her body. A sense of unease.

She stopped the wheel, her breath catching in her throat. She needed to compose herself.

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:
worse0.229
trem0.203
😰0.203
😨0.201
緊張0.200
Suppressed:
la-0.397
que-0.260
a-0.242
B-0.217
H-0.210