The news landed like a physical blow. "I'm converting to Judaism," her sister announced, her voice firm. A knot formed in her throat. She gripped the edge of the table, her knuckles white. She looked around the sun-drenched room, now suddenly oppressive. The happy chatter of the family around the brunch table faded into a dull roar. Tears pricked her eyes. She felt a profound sense of loss, as if something precious was being irrevocably taken away.

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