The rain lashed against the windows, a furious assault. The crash had been deafening, a monstrous sound that seemed to shatter the very air. She couldn't breathe.

Her hands flew to her mouth, stifling a sob. The house felt like a cage, the walls pressing in on her. Each creak of the aging timbers sent a jolt of alarm through her.

She had to see. She had to know. But her legs felt like lead, rooted to the spot. Her whole body was rigid, unable to move.

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