He stared at the file, the damning evidence laid out before him. It felt like a punch to the gut, the wind knocked from him. The meticulously kept notes, the scans, the history… all belonged to someone else. He felt a creeping sensation of vulnerability.

He sat there, frozen, unable to think, his mind a scrambled mess. The familiar objects in his home, the comforting routines of his day-to-day life, suddenly seemed tainted. Everything felt different.

The air felt thin, hard to breathe. A heavy weight settled on his chest, constricting him. He felt trapped, alone, and adrift in a sea of uncertainty.

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