The dim light of the alley cast long, distorted shadows as David inspected his find. A thick wallet, practically overflowing with bills. He felt the blood drain from his face. This was… trouble.

He instinctively ducked deeper into the shadows, as if to become invisible. His gaze darted back and forth, as if anticipating an ambush. He needed to get away, to disappear.

The cold brick pressed against his back, a solid, unyielding reminder of the precariousness of his position. He wished he had never found it. He felt trapped.

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