She stared out the window, the bustling campus life a distant blur. The information about Professor Rodriguez leaving caused her to withdraw into herself. Her breathing became shallow and rapid, and her throat felt constricted, making it difficult to swallow. The vibrant greens of the trees, usually a source of comfort, now seemed to mock her. A deep dread had settled over her, and she felt paralyzed. She imagined the future stretching out before her, uncertain and full of obstacles.

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