The paper crackled in her trembling hands. A single, crimson letter glared back at her from the top – a D. Her breath hitched. The library, normally a sanctuary of quiet study, felt suffocating, the air thick and heavy. She reread the professor's comments, each critique a sharp jab. Her stomach twisted, a cold knot forming in the pit of her being. She couldn't meet her own reflection in the polished table surface.

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