The library felt colder than usual, a stark contrast to the warmth that was meant to be emanating from the books. He spotted it on the table. The cover, taunting. It was as if someone had snuck inside his head and extracted the most intimate details of his life. He felt the blood drain from his face, leaving him pale and clammy. His breath came in shallow, ragged gasps. He wanted to shout, scream, but his throat felt constricted, making it impossible to produce any sound. He wanted to run.

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