He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. A grade of β€œC-” flashed against the black screen. Liam’s stomach twisted into a knot. His heart began to hammer against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat. He instinctively reached for his phone, fingers fumbling. He needed to call his parents, tell them before they saw the grade on the parent portal. He imagined their faces, the disappointment he knew would be there.

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
πŸ˜–0.294
느껴0.294
Suppressed:
de-0.630
la-0.616
a-0.347
"-0.345
happy-0.294