The party had been a mistake. Maria’s ears were still ringing, and her head throbbed. Then, a pounding on the door. Her stomach lurched. The noise complaints had started again.

She opened the door, and there stood her landlady, her expression a mask of disapproval. Maria quickly stammered an apology. She felt a burning flush on her face.

The landlady’s words were sharp, and they stung. Maria nodded, unable to meet her gaze. She was so ashamed. She just wanted the floor to open and swallow 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