It was addressed to her daughter, a letter she had started but never finished. The words felt like a betrayal. She felt a wave of anxiety wash over her.

Her palms began to sweat. The cheerful colors of her kitchen seemed to mock her. The silence of the house pressed in on her, the stillness amplifying the thudding of her own heart. She tried to take a deep breath, but it didn't help.

She wanted to run, to escape the weight of the unopened words. Her vision blurred.

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