The clinking of tools and the rumble of the digger vibrated through the ground, a rhythmic assault on Clara's senses. She stood rooted to the spot, arms crossed, watching the workers measure and stake out the boundary. A low hum filled her ears, a physical manifestation of her own inner turmoil.

She had always cherished the openness of the shared space. Now, she envisioned a solid wall of wood, blocking the sunlight and the easy camaraderie she enjoyed with her neighbor, Mrs. Rodriguez. A knot formed in her stomach, and she found herself biting her lip.

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
ç·Šå¼µ0.200
Suppressed:
la-0.397
que-0.260
a-0.242
B-0.217
H-0.210