The news had hit her like a physical blow, stealing her breath, leaving her reeling. She had retreated to the confines of her small apartment, a familiar sanctuary that now felt like a cage. She kept repeating the doctor’s words in her mind, each phrase a hammer blow against her already fragile composure. She felt the sudden urge to flee, to escape the suffocating weight of the truth. She looked out the window, at the world that now seemed so far away.

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