The doctor's office was sterile and cold. Mark, waiting for his appointment, had just texted the doctor: "Can't wait to see you naked!" It was supposed to go to his friend, Matt, as a joke. He realized his blunder immediately.

His face flushed crimson. He felt his pulse race. The door was about to open.

He pictured the doctor’s stunned reaction, the awkward silence. He was mortified. He considered running. He felt like he would throw up.

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