"I'm sorry, there's been a mistake," the doctor had said. The words echoed in her ears. Sarah felt a jolt of anxiety, a raw, exposed nerve. She tried to appear calm, but a tremor ran through her limbs.

She felt a sudden urge to flee, to escape the sterile environment, the unsettling uncertainty. She found herself clenching her fists, nails digging into her palms. The silence that followed was unbearable.

Her pulse pounded in her ears, a frantic rhythm. She fought against the rising tide of panic, a desperate attempt to maintain control. She wanted to scream, to cry, but she could only sit there, frozen, feeling utterly vulnerable.

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