He’d always loved the idea of fixing up an old house. Then the inspection revealed the shocking truth: a brutal assault, a bloodstain on the floorboards, a life violently taken. He was frozen.

He began spending less and less time there. He'd find himself making excuses to stay late at work.

Whenever he did return, he moved through the rooms with a sense of dread. He was filled with a sense of unease, every shadow seemed to be a threat. The house, once a project, now felt like a prison.

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
λ§ˆλ‹€0.314
worse0.313
😰0.303
恐惧0.290
Suppressed:
de-0.691
la-0.562
a-0.402
"-0.316
brag-0.293