Her breathing quickened, shallow and uneven. Her lips were pressed in a thin, tight line. The space where her vintage Mustang usually sat now echoed with its absence. She blinked rapidly, trying to clear her vision.

She walked towards the curb, peering up and down the street. It was ridiculous. Her driveway was her driveway. No one could just...take her car. The blood seemed to drain from her face.

"What in the world..." she began, her voice trailing off. She pulled her phone from her purse, her fingers clumsy and unresponsive. She needed to make a call.

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