The old house felt cold, even with the central heating on full blast. John’s stomach churned as he entered the storage room. It was like stepping back in time. He couldn't shake the feeling that he was being watched. He'd stalled for days, but the task had to be completed.

He had expected this, but it didn't make the prospect easier. He felt a sudden pressure in his temples, a dull ache that intensified with each passing second. He touched the box.

The lid was heavy. He lifted it. Inside, his past lay waiting.

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