The package was small, but the return address was the killer. The sender: Evelyn Carter, the woman who'd lived in the apartment before. Evelyn had disappeared mysteriously, leaving behind a string of unanswered questions and a growing sense of unease.

She bolted the door, the click of the lock a sharp, decisive sound. A chill seeped into the room, even though the central heating was on full blast. She backed away from the package, a sense of foreboding settling over her.

She didn't eat. She didn't sleep. Every shadow seemed to move. Her eyes darted from corner to corner. She kept replaying the events of the last few weeks in her mind. Did she notice anything?

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