"No, no, no," whispered Sarah, her voice barely audible as she reread the messages. A knot formed in her stomach, twisting with each word. The account was filled with conversations she couldn’t even guess the context of. Her head began to pound, a dull throb behind her eyes.

She instinctively reached for her phone, checking the time. Almost midnight. She felt a pressing need to pace, to do *something*. The air in the room felt thick, heavy, as though the walls were closing in. Her breath hitched. She needed air. The digital world had suddenly become a suffocating trap.

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