The phone rang, jolting Emily out of her seat. She answered it, trying to keep her voice steady, but it wavered slightly. "Yes, this is she," she replied, her heart hammering against her ribs.

It was HR, confirming her interview time. She hung up the phone, her hands trembling. She took a few deep breaths, trying to calm herself, but her thoughts raced. Had she prepared enough?

She stared out the window, watching the rain streak down the glass, blurring the world outside. The thought of facing her boss, Mr. Thompson, and the other contenders filled her with a sense of unease.

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