The old house loomed large and ominous in the fading light. As soon as Michael walked inside, his breath caught in his throat. He forced himself to walk around the living room.

His sister, Olivia, was already in the kitchen, making a cup of tea. He knew she would get on with unpacking, like always. He just couldn't shake the sensation of something pressing in from all sides.

He started fiddling with the thermostat, even though the house was a comfortable temperature. He couldn't stop the tremors that were starting to shake his hands.

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