"I… I don't understand," Thomas stammered, his voice barely audible above the hum of the machine. The engineer pointed to the patent document, the technical jargon swimming before his eyes. His hands trembled, making it difficult to hold the document still. He took a deep, shaky breath, trying to clear his head, but his thoughts were a tangled mess. He felt a deep, chilling emptiness spreading through him.

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
ė§ˆė‹¤0.314
worse0.313
😰0.303
ꁐꃧ0.290
Suppressed:
de-0.691
la-0.562
a-0.402
"-0.316
brag-0.293