The new language filled the air, a constant hum that vibrated through the floorboards. He’d been spending hours in his study. The words, echoing in her mind, were foreign. She had been hiding, spying.

She couldn't meet his gaze. It was a physical thing.

She was unable to eat. She picked at the food on her plate, her stomach twisting with anxiety. When he reached for her hand, she flinched, pulling away as if burned.

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
πŸ˜–0.294
느껴0.294
Suppressed:
de-0.630
la-0.616
a-0.347
"-0.345
happy-0.294