"Oh, crap," Maya muttered, her voice barely audible. Her application essay, the one she'd spent weeks agonizing over, was now a shining example of admissions excellence. She felt the blood draining from her face. Her palms were slick with sweat. She slammed her laptop closed, the sudden noise echoing in the quiet room. She paced the length of her dorm room, her mind a whirlwind of what-ifs and potential judgments. The impending feeling of exposure was overwhelming.

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