The gallery was packed with critics, all murmuring about her latest sculpture. Then she saw *it*. A piece identical to her own, but signed by someone else. Her legs went weak, and she leaned against the wall for support.

Her vision swam. The color drained from her face. She felt a burning pressure behind her eyes.

She whispered to her assistant, "I... I need some air," and then fled. She felt a pressing need to find some place to hide.

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