The vibration came first, a low rumble that seemed to emanate from the floor itself. Then, the knocking. It was Mrs. Gable, again. The dread he'd been fighting all evening washed over him. He hated confrontation.

He knew he should have been more considerate. The music had been too loud. He just hadn't realized how much. He swallowed hard.

He went to the door and slowly unlatched it. He steeled himself. He was going to hear it. He just wanted it to be over.

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