He stared at the passbook, the numbers blurring. A cold sweat slicked his palms. The neatly handwritten ledger was a betrayal. He ran a hand through his hair, his heart hammering against his ribs. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to flee, to escape the confines of their shared life. He closed the book, the metallic click echoing in the quiet study. He needed air, needed to get away, even if only for a few minutes.

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