β€œIt’s just a vase,” Uncle George said, his voice unusually loud. But to Maria, it was the vase. The one Grandfather made, the one that held all the memories. She busied herself with rearranging the cushions on the sofa, a desperate attempt to avoid his gaze. The air around her felt thick, suffocating. She couldn't understand why he wanted to let it go. Her hands trembled as she brushed a stray strand of hair from her face.

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
λ§ˆλ‹€0.314
worse0.313
😰0.303
恐惧0.290
Suppressed:
de-0.691
la-0.562
a-0.402
"-0.316
brag-0.293