The card felt cold in her hands, despite the warmth of the day. Sarah’s fingers trembled as she held it. She didn't recognize the handwriting, and her name was the only thing on the card. A feeling of disquiet settled over her, like a dark cloud.

She snapped the door shut. She turned and locked every lock on the door. Her breathing quickened. She peered out the window, her gaze darting from side to side, scanning the street. The trees seemed to sway menacingly in the wind.

She wanted to scream. She wanted to run. She wanted to be somewhere else. Anywhere else.

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