The discovery left David feeling incredibly unsettled. He paced his living room, phone in hand, the secret account still open on his screen. His throat felt tight, and he kept swallowing, trying to dislodge the lump lodged there. He ran his hand over his face.

The curated posts and carefully crafted captions. He felt a deep sense of unease. He felt a need to sit, but also a need to be moving. He glanced at the closed door of his daughter's room and his heart skipped a beat. She could be doing *anything* at this very moment.

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