The email notification had popped up innocently, a simple “Account Activity.” Her fingers froze over the mouse. The balance—a vast sum she hadn't known existed—made her chest constrict. She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She gripped the edge of the desk, her knuckles white. She swallowed, trying to force the air into her lungs. Every click of the computer seemed magnified, the sound vibrating through her.

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