A cold sweat slicked down his back as he listened to Professor Ramirez. Liam felt his heart hammer against his ribs, a frantic bird trapped in a cage. He had worked so hard, poured everything into this thesis, and now… The words felt lost, meaningless. He found himself unable to focus. The future, once clear and attainable, had dissolved into a blurry haze of uncertainty. He felt a tremendous wave of dread wash over him.

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