The text message. That's what started it all. A friend, someone she'd trusted, had confessed to using her paper as inspiration. He'd gone much further, however. She felt a chill creep up her spine as she looked at the text.

Her hands moved on their own, deleting the message and blocking the contact. Then she felt a rush of heat and the next thing she knew she was vomiting in the bathroom sink. She leaned against the cold porcelain, clutching her stomach.

The world seemed off-kilter, spinning just slightly. The accusations felt like a physical blow. The walls of her apartment began to close in, and she needed to find a way out of here.

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