The message glowed on Clara's phone: "Just drove past your house! What a weird coincidence!" The color drained from her face. Her hand flew to her mouth, stifling a gasp.

Her house. He knew where she lived. The walls of her apartment seemed to close in on her, constricting her chest. Her breath caught in her throat. Every shadow outside seemed to move, morphing into a silhouette of something unknown.

She scrambled for the phone, wanting to reach out to someone, anyone. The letters blurred before her eyes as she tried to compose a message. The feeling of being exposed, vulnerable, was overwhelming.

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