The dust made her eyes water. David’s hands trembled as he tried to sweep the front porch. He found himself jumping at sudden noises, imagining the roof caving in.

He stopped taking walks. He avoided the front yard. He spent most of his time indoors, watching the news, but unable to focus on the stories.

He began hoarding canned goods, as if anticipating a siege. His usually tidy house slowly became cluttered, a visible representation of the chaos inside.

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