Her voice cracked as she spoke, the syllables catching in her throat. She had found a textbook hidden under the mattress. The images, the unfamiliar grammar, were imprinted on her vision.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. Her hands felt numb, her fingers tingling. She needed air, to escape the suffocating presence of their home.

She didn't know what to do. The silence in the house was deafening. The only sound was the frantic drumming of her own pulse in her ears.

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