The vibrant colors of the art gallery blurred before her eyes. Emily felt the room spinning. She'd caught sight of Daniel, her "art curator" friend, sweeping the floor. She had to flee. She had to go.

She felt a tingling in her fingers, then her toes. The walls seemed to be closing in. She fumbled with her purse, her hands clumsy and uncoordinated.

She moved quickly through the exhibit, knocking over a display stand. She did not stop. She pushed past the other patrons and burst out into the street.

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