Her hands were icy, but the sweat on her palms betrayed her. She stood on the sidewalk, clutching the wallet, struggling to maintain her composure. Every passing car seemed to slow down, its occupants staring. She felt exposed, vulnerable.

The air felt thick, making it difficult to breathe. Her throat constricted, and she had to swallow hard to push the lump away. She kept glancing over her shoulder, expecting to see someone following her, their expression accusing.

She desperately wanted to disappear, to rewind time and undo her discovery. The streets seemed to twist and turn, leading to an unknown destination. All she felt was a profound sense of helplessness.

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