He found himself staring at the screen for hours, the details of the listing blurring into a single, overwhelming sensation. He felt a profound disorientation, as if the ground beneath him had shifted. The images of the renovated bathrooms felt invasive, a defilement of a sacred space.

He started to bite his lip, a nervous habit he hadn't indulged in years. His jaw clenched, muscles protesting with tension. The thought of someone else inhabiting the rooms, sleeping in his old bedroom, was almost unbearable.

He needed to erase the listing, to make it disappear. He fumbled for the “report listing” button, his fingers clumsy and slow. He couldn't, wouldn't, accept this.

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