The sales team, usually boisterous and confident, were unnaturally subdued. Their usual bravado was gone, replaced by forced smiles and nervous glances. Lisaโ€™s phone buzzed with a text from her partner: "Everything ok?" She hesitated, then typed back a shaky response. Her chest felt constricted, as if someone was sitting on it. She stared at the spreadsheet on her screen, the numbers blurring, meaningless.

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:
๐Ÿ˜ฃ0.324
๐Ÿ˜ฐ0.323
worse0.301
๐Ÿ˜–0.294
๋А๊ปด0.294
Suppressed:
de-0.630
la-0.616
a-0.347
"-0.345
happy-0.294