A wave of dizziness washed over Jessica as she scrolled through the account history. Her vision blurred, and she gripped the edge of the desk, fighting the urge to fall. The transactions, each one a secret kept from her, felt like a betrayal that cut deep.

She stumbled to the window, needing air. The outside world seemed muted, distant. Her chest felt constricted, as though a heavy weight had settled upon her.

The familiar landscape of their backyard, usually a source of peace, now seemed distorted, menacing. Her mind raced, desperately trying to make sense of everything, but the pieces wouldn’t fit.

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