He paced the small apartment, his shadow stretching and contorting on the walls. Liam had just discovered the truth about his favorite author, Eleanor Vance, and the news had left him reeling. He hadn't sat down since. The evidence, a website dedicated to exposing Vance’s plagiarism, was undeniable.

He ran his fingers through his hair, tugging at the strands. He couldn't keep still. He needed to do something, anything, to release the pressure building inside. He felt as though the floor was about to give way beneath him. The world, so full of possibilities, suddenly seemed hollow.

He stopped in front of his bookshelf, staring at the row of Vance's novels. The spines seemed to mock him.

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