He stared at the email, the words "Sales Department" blurring before his eyes. His stomach lurched. He was an engineer; logic and precision were his tools. Sales required charm and persuasion, a skill set he lacked.

He started avoiding his colleagues, spending his lunch breaks alone. He'd usually enjoy a walk in the park, but now, the bustling crowds triggered a sense of unease.

The first sales meeting was a nightmare. He sat at the back of the room, his hands clammy, his heart pounding. The constant barrage of questions and the competitive atmosphere made his head spin. He counted the minutes until it was over.

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