"This can't be happening," she muttered, the words barely audible. Her stomach churned. The world felt unstable, like she was standing on a boat in a turbulent sea. She took a shaky breath, trying to regain control.

He felt the sweat beading on his forehead. The tow truck's departure felt like a personal violation. The concrete felt hard beneath his feet, and his gaze refused to stay still. He had to know why. He had to know who. He pulled out his phone, his fingers fumbling with the numbers.

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