He stared at the postcard in his hand. The photograph of the beach, once a shared memory, now felt like a cruel joke. He had traveled miles to see her. His heart was hammering. He pushed himself up from the bench, feeling the ground tilting beneath his feet.

He found her near the water, sketching in a notebook.

He walked over.

"Maya?" he asked, his voice barely audible.

She glanced up, and the smile faded from her face. "I'm not sure I know you," she said, her voice soft.

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
ç·Šå¼µ0.200
Suppressed:
la-0.397
que-0.260
a-0.242
B-0.217
H-0.210