“Well, that’s that, then,” mumbled Ethan, his voice barely audible. He shoved his hands deep into his pockets. The building, usually bustling with students and chatter, now felt menacingly quiet. He kept his head down as he walked through the hallways, trying to avoid any chance encounters. A cold sweat prickled his skin. Each step felt heavy, as if he were wading through thick mud. He felt a desperate urge to run, to escape.

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