The air in the lab felt thick, oppressive. The scent of chemicals, usually a comfort, now felt like a prelude to some unforeseen catastrophe. He sat hunched over his workbench, his shoulders drawn up to his ears. He wouldn’t make eye contact with his colleagues. His hands trembled as he reached for a beaker, almost dropping it. He felt the cold touch of dread on his back, a persistent presence. He needed to get away, to disappear.

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