"How long have you known?" the woman asked, her voice barely a whisper. The question hung between them in the sparsely furnished waiting room of the specialist's clinic. She avoided the man's gaze, studying the intricate pattern of the linoleum floor. The air, thick with anticipation and unspoken anxieties, pressed down on her chest. A wave of dizziness washed over her, and she tightened her grip on the worn strap of her purse.

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