"Class of '09 - Fifteenth Reunion!" The words seemed to jump off the invitation and slap her in the face. Emily gasped, her hand flying to her throat. The color drained from her face.

Her pulse quickened, a frantic drumming against her ribs. She couldn't focus. Her thoughts scattered, a jumbled mess of anxieties and regrets.

She felt a desperate need to flee, to escape the confines of her own skin.

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