He paced the living room, the statement clutched in his fist. Anger, sharp and hot, was quickly turning into something else. He felt a profound disorientation, a sense that the floor was tilting beneath his feet. He picked up a framed photograph of them, their smiles seeming mocking in the cold light. He dropped the frame back down, the glass tapping against the table. He couldn’t seem to find a place to rest his gaze, to find a moment of peace.

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