The stale air felt thick and oppressive. Olivia’s chest felt tight. She started to rub her arms, even though she wasn't cold. The sensation of being trapped was starting to overwhelm her.

She stared intently at the control panel, watching the numbers remain stubbornly still. She imagined the worst: being stuck in here for days, with no food, no water, no...

"This is ridiculous," she muttered under her breath, her voice raspy. She paced the small space, her steps erratic.

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