The radio blared, a cheerful announcer promoting "Mrs. Gable's Goulash," the latest culinary sensation. A wave of pure dread washed over her. She knew that goulash. It was her aunt's recipe, the one passed down through generations. She felt a dizzying sensation.

Her fingers tightened around the radio dial, as if she could somehow silence the voice. Her palms were slick with sweat. The world tilted slightly. She felt disoriented, as if her entire reality was shifting.

She jumped up, knocking over her chair. The sound echoed in the sudden silence, making her jump. She had to get away from the sound.

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