The news hit Michael like a physical blow. His jaw clenched as he processed the announcement. "Conversion." He let out a short, involuntary sigh, a sound of defeated resignation. He felt a deep hollowness in his chest.

He abruptly stood up and began pacing his living room. The worn carpet, the faded furniture, suddenly felt inadequate, almost shameful. His mind raced, calculating costs, considering possibilities.

He looked out of the window and his body stiffened. The city outside, usually a source of energy, felt menacing. The wind howled and whistled through the building, a mournful song of change.

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