A shiver raced down Zara's spine, even though the room was warm. She chewed on her lip, a nervous habit she hadn't realized she still had. The evidence was right there, the open journal on the desk. This was the moment she had been dreading. Her roommate, Kayla, was the culprit.

Zara sat, frozen, on the edge of her bed. The feeling in her gut churned, a volatile concoction of anger and sadness. She found she couldn’t meet Kayla’s eyes. She had to choose her words carefully, but what words could convey the depth of her hurt? The air hung thick with unspoken accusations.

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