He poured himself a glass of water, his hand shaking so violently that some of it spilled. The article was a monster, growing with every refresh. He took a long, slow drink, trying to calm the rapid beat of his heart.

He couldn’t believe this was happening. He’d lived his life, hidden away. Now, everything was on display. His stomach churned. He walked to the window and stared out at the street.

The world seemed indifferent, oblivious to the storm raging inside him. It was a terrifying thought. He set the glass down and sat on his bed, the silence of the room amplifying his anxiety.

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