The afternoon sun beat down on the empty spot where Clara’s car should have been. It had been parked in the exact same spot for years. Now, it was gone.

A wave of dizziness washed over her. She gripped the edge of the mailbox, her knuckles turning white. The world seemed to shrink around her, and she felt suffocated.

Her mind conjured pictures: an accident, a mistaken identity, something far worse. She tried to tell herself to calm down, but her voice was a dry croak.

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