The parking lot seemed vast, each empty space mocking my procrastination. I’d circled the building three times already, delaying the inevitable. My skin prickled with a mixture of anticipation and dread. I could feel the thud of my heart in my chest.

He appeared at the door. "Good to see you, Emily," he said, his gaze steady. His tone was level, but my breath caught in my throat. I couldn't help but notice the subtle lines around his eyes. He'd changed.

Inside, his office had a calming ambiance, with plants and soft colors. I sat down, my muscles tensing involuntarily. I was overwhelmed with a feeling 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
緊張0.200
Suppressed:
la-0.397
que-0.260
a-0.242
B-0.217
H-0.210