Dust motes danced in the single ray of sunlight slicing through the crack in the gym door. For a moment, Kai was frozen, the paper in his hands a flimsy shield against the weight of his disappointment. His chest was tight, his breaths coming in short, uneven spurts. He instinctively clenched his fists. His gaze flickered to the faces of the others, all beaming, and an awful sensation, like acid, burned in his gut. The silence was deafening, the celebratory noises now far away and muffled.

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