The musty smell of the old book filled the small apartment. As David unfolded the letter, his face turned pale. It contained a list of names, a list that included his own.

He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his gut. His hands were ice-cold as he clutched the letter tighter. The familiar objects in his apartment seemed to shift and change in the dim light, taking on a sinister aspect.

He slammed the book shut, the sound echoing in the silent room. He felt a sudden urge to flee, to disappear, to hide.

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