The hallway blurred as she stumbled towards her locker. The weight of the accusation, a heavy cloak, seemed to press her into the ground. Her vision swam. Every student she passed seemed to be looking at her, judging her.

She fumbled with the combination lock, her hands clumsy and uncooperative. The familiar click of the door opening offered no relief. Her heart raced, threatening to burst from her chest.

She wished she could simply disappear.

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