The courtroom felt cavernous, the silence amplifying the thudding of her heart. Emily clutched her handbag, her knuckles white. She tried to appear calm, but a tremor ran through her, an electric current. Her gaze darted around the room, taking in every detail, as though memorizing it for some future escape. The lawyer was speaking, but the words were a distant echo. The world blurred around the edges. She felt a cold drop of sweat trickle down her spine.

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