The attic was a labyrinth of forgotten things. As she pushed the door open, her breath came in ragged gasps. The air felt thick, as if holding its breath. Olivia's chest constricted.

She saw the dolls, a row of them, their painted eyes seeming to follow her. This was not the home she had purchased. She needed to leave.

A cold spot settled on her back. She whirled, convinced someone was watching her.

Her feet were rooted to the floor. She could barely breathe.

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