The vibrant colors of the art studio seemed to dull, the canvas mocking Claire's distress. She sat on the stool, the manuscript beside her. Her mind raced, replaying every shared moment with James, searching for clues, for lies.

She had to know the truth, to understand the motivations behind this literary betrayal. She felt lightheaded, her vision blurring. She got up from the stool and began pacing.

Her footsteps fell hard against the wooden floor. She felt exposed, vulnerable, as if the very walls were privy to her humiliation.

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