John couldn't eat his breakfast. He'd tried, but the toast sat on his plate, untouched. A knot formed in his stomach, and he could barely swallow. The interview was this afternoon. The thought alone was enough to make him feel agitated.

He re-read the job description one last time, hoping to memorize every aspect. The words swam before his eyes. He poured himself some coffee, but the dark liquid did nothing to soothe his internal turmoil.

He kept pacing around his apartment, unable to settle. His wife, noticing his behavior, asked him if he was okay. He just gave a small shrug, unable to express the feeling.

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