The box was delivered anonymously, and inside was a photograph. It was a picture of a house, similar to hers, but not quite. The windows were too dark, the angles skewed. Her hands trembled as she laid it on the table. A sudden wave of nausea washed over her. Her pulse quickened, her vision blurring. She recognized the student, Sarah, in the window, even though the face was obscured by shadow. She grabbed her phone, her fingers fumbling over the numbers, needing to contact the authorities right away.

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