The house, a ghost in pixels. A tremor ran through Emily as she navigated the listing's virtual tour. The polished floors and modern fixtures felt alien, defiling. She felt a growing sense of constriction in her chest, a shortness of breath.

She bit her lip, her gaze flitting from image to image, searching for some familiar detail, some vestige of her past. She found nothing. A chilling wave of displacement swept over her.

She unplugged the laptop, her hands shaking, and retreated to the furthest corner of her apartment. She wrapped her arms around herself, seeking a comfort that refused to come. She was utterly alone, adrift in a sea of unknown.

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