The ornate mirror in the hallway swung inward, revealing a narrow passage. I felt my pulse quicken. I didn't want to go in. My feet seemed to have turned to lead.

My palms were sweating so badly I could barely hold the phone, now acting as a light. My throat was tight. I could barely swallow.

I willed myself to take a step, then another. The darkness was oppressive, and the air grew colder with each step I took. The old house seemed to be watching me.

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