The university’s rejection email hung in the air, a silent judgment. Sarah’s vision blurred. The coffee in her mug, moments ago steaming, was suddenly cold. She stared, unseeing, at the campus map plastered on her wall, the vibrant colors now seeming to mock her.

She gripped her chair, her knuckles turning white. A wave of nausea washed over her. The sound of a distant car horn jolted her. She wanted to scream, to lash out, but all she could manage was a tight, choked sob.

Emotion: frightened

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -2.74 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.67

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion frightened. 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 frightened stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the frightened emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the frightened vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
😣0.324
😰0.323
worse0.301
😖0.294
느껴0.294
Suppressed:
de-0.630
la-0.616
a-0.347
"-0.345
happy-0.294