The vibrant music at the concert, usually so thrilling, now grated on her nerves. The lights, normally a source of joy, now felt blinding. Chloe had delivered the news just an hour earlier.

She excused herself from the group, claiming a need for fresh air. She wandered outside, away from the noise and the crowds. The night air was cool against her skin, but it didn't offer any relief.

She leaned against a brick wall, her breath coming in short, shallow gasps. The city lights blurred through her tears, painting the night sky with streaks of color.

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