The vibrant money in her hand was a beautiful, terrifying thing. She hadn’t expected to find anything like it. Her eyes scanned the park, constantly looking. It was as if someone could leap out at her, snatching what didn't belong to her. She wanted to scream, to run. She wanted the ground to swallow her whole. Her lungs felt heavy, as if filled with lead. She squeezed her eyes shut, wishing she could rewind time and leave the wallet where she found it.

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