I walked into the house, and it felt like walking into a ghost. The air was stale, still. I ran my hand along the wallpaper, the pattern faded and cracked. My throat felt tight.

The living room, once filled with furniture and laughter, was now an empty shell. I felt a cold dread creeping into my bones. Every step felt heavy, each creak of the floorboards echoed in the vast emptiness.

I remembered the countless hours I had spent here, playing with my siblings, hiding in the closets, and reading under the stairs. All those moments, now confined to memory. My chest ached with an unfamiliar pressure. The thought of this place being torn down was unbearable.

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