The house had a history, a past that lingered in the shadows. He’d felt it from the moment he walked through the front door. Thomas shivered, despite the warmth of the afternoon sun. He had been exploring the basement, when he had found an oddly placed painting.

Behind the painting, the brickwork looked off. He tapped it. Hollow. He continued to tap, eventually discovering a way in. A stone brick slid to reveal a dark, dank, space. His fingers tightened on the edge of the brick. He leaned in to see what secrets were hidden.

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