He sat still, as if paralyzed. The polite smile plastered on his face felt like a mask, and underneath, his teeth were grinding together. It’s too much pressure.

She glanced at him, her eyes clouded with an emotion he couldn't quite decipher. A wave of regret washed over him. He hated this rivalry.

He felt the tension in his shoulders rise. He took a deep breath, fighting the impulse to bolt. The call of his name was a sentence, and he knew it was time to face his fate.

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
πŸ˜–0.294
느껴0.294
Suppressed:
de-0.630
la-0.616
a-0.347
"-0.345
happy-0.294