The afternoon sun, usually a welcome companion, seemed to mock Leo with its relentless glare. Where the great sycamore had stood, there was only a mess of wood chips and a sawed-off trunk. His pulse quickened. He swallowed hard, trying to fight back the sudden wave of nausea. A buzzing started in his ears, a high-pitched whine that drowned out the sounds of the world around him. He gripped his head, squeezing his eyes shut, wishing he could somehow rewind time.

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