β€œTake a deep breath,” he said, his voice softer than she remembered. She found herself unable to comply. The air in the room was suddenly thin, making it difficult to draw enough oxygen.

The plush cushions of the couch offered no comfort. She shifted constantly, unable to find a comfortable position. Every muscle in her body was tense, rigid.

She felt a hot flush creep up her neck, staining her cheeks a furious red.

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