The bank statement felt like ice in her trembling hand. Sarah reread the balance, her stomach clenching. Nearly eighty thousand dollars. Where did it come from? Her breath hitched. She backed away from the kitchen table, the paper slipping from her numb fingers. The silence of the house pressed in on her, heavy and suffocating. She fumbled for the phone, her fingers clumsy on the buttons as she dialed her best friend, the dial tone echoing in the sudden emptiness.

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