She forced a smile as she greeted her parents. The house was spotless, everything in its place. It felt…unnatural. Her hands trembled as she handed over the boxes containing her belongings.

Her father seemed overly attentive, her mother, unnaturally quiet. She excused herself to go upstairs, seeking sanctuary in her old room.

She closed the door behind her, the latch clicking with an unsettling finality. She immediately began to pace.

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