"I don't understand," Emily whispered, her voice barely audible. The time capsule, unearthed during a routine landscape project, featured a handwritten journal. Each entry chronicled events in her life, but the handwriting was hers, yet the words felt like a riddle.

She ran a hand through her hair, a shiver running down her spine. The entries grew increasingly cryptic, culminating in a series of disturbing sketches she didn't recall creating. She backed away from the open container. The drawings depicted her house. She couldn’t shake the feeling of something closing in, the air seeming heavy.

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