"I've found a new path," Dad declared, his voice unusually loud. "I'm embracing Wicca." Emily’s world tilted slightly. The familiar, warm scent of his pipe tobacco seemed to sour in her nostrils. She watched him, frozen, as he reached for a book about ancient rituals. Her fingers felt numb. A wave of dizziness washed over her. The comfortable glow of the fireplace became menacing, the shadows in the room dancing with an unsettling energy.

Emotion: scared

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -2.86 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.84

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion scared. 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 scared stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the scared emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the scared vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
😣0.350
😰0.337
😖0.317
마다0.317
恐惧0.311
Suppressed:
la-0.637
de-0.605
a-0.402
"-0.351
happy-0.314