The party music thumped, a relentless pulse of joy in stark contrast to the hollow feeling in her chest. As she scanned the room, she looked for the object of her trepidation. Jessica's triumphant tales of being a top surgeon had always felt slightly unreal to her. She glanced from the corner of her eye as the woman's face seemed to glow from the excitement of the moment. Then, she saw it; a waiter offering her a tray of drinks. The world around her was still, but her mind was racing.

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