β€œWhat does this *mean*?” Mark whispered to himself, his voice trembling slightly. He scrolled through the hidden profile again, and again, trying to find some sort of explanation. He felt a strange lightness in his head, as if he might float away.

He felt an unfamiliar dryness in his mouth. He abruptly shut the laptop, the sudden darkness making his eyes water. He ran his hand over his face, as if trying to rub away the images. He stood up, then started pacing, his footsteps echoing in the silence.

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
πŸ˜–0.317
λ§ˆλ‹€0.317
恐惧0.311
Suppressed:
la-0.637
de-0.605
a-0.402
"-0.351
happy-0.314