The exam hall, normally bustling with activity, was eerily quiet. The proctor called his name, and he hesitated, his body stiffening. The accusation weighed on him, a heavy, invisible chain. He fumbled with his ID, his hands trembling.

He sat at his desk, the test paper staring back at him. The words blurred, the questions seeming impossible to answer. He felt a cold dread creeping into his bones. His mind was blank, unable to focus. He pushed the paper away.

He wanted to scream, to run, to escape this suffocating environment. He closed his eyes, his heart pounding in his chest. He was trapped, and there was no way out. He felt tears stinging his eyes, threatening to spill over.

Emotion: afraid

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -2.76 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.70

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion afraid. 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 afraid stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the afraid emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the afraid vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
😣0.316
마다0.314
worse0.313
😰0.303
恐惧0.290
Suppressed:
de-0.691
la-0.562
a-0.402
"-0.316
brag-0.293