The old photographs, brittle with age, lay scattered on the table. Each image a betrayal of everything he thought he knew. He stared at the woman in the photos, his great-grandmother, the woman who had always been a saintly figure, and the man she was smiling with, who was clearly not her husband.

His stomach lurched, and he felt a wave of dizziness wash over him. His hands trembled as he reached for the next photograph. The room began to spin, the walls seeming to pulse with a hidden energy. He felt suffocated, trapped in a web of deceit, and the need to scream, to shatter the illusion, was almost overwhelming.

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