He slammed the door shut, the sound echoing through the empty apartment. The notification from the mail slot landed on the floor. He didn't even bother to pick it up. He began to pace. Each step was quick, agitated, with the tension building inside him.

His eyes darted from object to object, as if searching for something, a solution, a way out. He stopped in front of the window, his chest heaving. He pounded his fist against the wall, but did not make a sound.

He finally bent down and picked up the paper, the harsh words now etched into his memory. He buried his face in his hands.

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