The discovery sent chills up my spine. Inside the box, unearthed by the recent storm, were my old toys, my old letters, addressed by me to myself. But the handwriting, though familiar, seemed alien. I remember none of this. The very concept of time felt wrong.

My hands began to shake as I pulled out a crudely drawn map, showing the area around my childhood home. A red 'X' marked a spot, not far from where the capsule was found. My breath grew shallow. I didn't want to go there.

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