"Stay here," Mrs. Peterson snapped, her voice sharp. She pointed a trembling finger at the couch as she turned to leave. Even her voice was tight.

Her son, Leo, followed her to the door, his eyes wide as he gazed out towards the scene. It looked like the world was ending.

He could hear the branches of the massive tree he knew so well creaking again. He didn't want his mother to go out there. He didn't want her to get hurt. He watched her from the window.

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