Mr. Henderson stared at the package on his doorstep. The return address was unfamiliar, but the looping handwriting sent a shiver down his spine. It had been ten years since he taught Emily, a girl who’d fixated on him in the most unsettling way. He dragged the package inside, feet heavy, and slammed the door shut. His palms were slick. He paced his living room, unable to shake the feeling of being watched. He didn't want to open it, to know. He didn't want to know.

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