The doctor’s words echoed in his ears. A sibling. Born the same year as his own son. The news, delivered with clinical detachment, had sent a shock through his system. Now, he was driving home, but his car felt like it was moving in slow motion.

He gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles ached. His vision blurred, and he blinked, trying to clear his head. He pulled over to the side of the road, the world tilting around him. He needed to get away, to disappear.

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