The first thing she did was pace. Back and forth, the confines of her childhood bedroom now a prison of anxiety. The floral wallpaper, once a source of comfort, pressed in on her.

Her parents’ voices, muffled from the kitchen, carried through the thin walls, creating a relentless soundtrack to her internal turmoil. She peeked out the window, looking for an escape route, before stopping herself.

A knock at the door. Her mother’s gentle voice. She froze. This was it.

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