He was visiting his grandmother in the hospital when he heard it. The song wafted from a nearby room. It was his. He paused, his blood turning cold.

He felt a deep, hollow ache in his gut. His hands were clammy. The song was a constant, unwelcome reminder. A nurse hurried past, and he turned away, his shoulders slumped.

He looked at the floor, and he felt a desperate desire to simply walk away. He couldn't. His throat felt like it was closing. He had to leave.

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