The new job was in the fast-paced world of tech support. His transfer was effective immediately. John’s eyes darted around the noisy, chaotic tech room, his senses on high alert. He had been a low-level clerk in the finance department.

The phone rang incessantly, and the air buzzed with nervous energy. The other employees seemed to thrive on the pressure, but John felt a tightening in his chest. His hands trembled as he attempted to pick up the phone.

The first call was difficult, a barrage of technical jargon he couldn’t understand. He mumbled a few words, his voice barely audible. He felt the cold sweat begin to pour from his forehead. It was all a disaster.

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