The genealogy website displayed a family tree that felt foreign, untethered to his reality. Michael scrolled through names he didn’t recognize, places he’d never been. A wave of nausea surged through him. He leaned back in his chair, the room spinning slightly. The familiar objects around him – his desk, his books, his framed photographs – suddenly seemed detached, unreal. He felt an intense, internal pressure, a desperate need for solid ground.

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
πŸ˜–0.317
λ§ˆλ‹€0.317
恐惧0.311
Suppressed:
la-0.637
de-0.605
a-0.402
"-0.351
happy-0.314