The professor’s email arrived at an inopportune moment, just as she was about to enjoy her dinner. “A Sample Essay for Future Applicants!” it screamed. She dropped her fork, the clatter echoing in the kitchen. Her legs suddenly felt weak. She closed her eyes, trying to compose herself, but the image of her words, dissected and analyzed, swirled in her head. She opened her eyes, reached for her phone, and quickly messaged her best friend.

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