The news hit Sarah like a tidal wave, washing away any sense of normalcy. She felt a profound sense of disorientation, as though the ground had been swept from beneath her feet. The comfortable armchair in the doctor’s office suddenly felt like a cage.

She began to pace the room, her agitation growing with each step. The walls seemed to close in, the silence of the room amplifying her inner turmoil.

Her hands moved restlessly, clutching at her hair, tugging at the strands. She wanted to scream, to shatter the stillness, to break free from the nightmare.

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