The small, dimly lit jazz club felt suddenly suffocating. Eleanor had come here to unwind, to listen to the music. Then the pianist began. Her song.

Her hands flew to her mouth. The arrangement was beautiful, haunting, but it was all wrong. The pianist had captured the melody, but missed the spirit.

She slid low in her seat, desperate to disappear. A wave of nausea rolled over her. Every note a painful reminder. She felt a burning sensation in her throat. She needed space.

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