The air in the living room was thick, like soup. He watched his wife's face as she spoke, the contours of her smile replaced by an unfamiliar serenity. She was becoming a Mormon. He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his chest, a feeling of being betrayed. He found his palms were sweating and began to rub them together anxiously. He wanted to argue, to scream, to make her take it back, but the words wouldn't come. He just nodded, because he couldn't think of anything else to do.

Emotion: terrified

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -2.97 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.62

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion terrified. 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 terrified stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the terrified emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the terrified vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
😣0.357
worse0.350
无法0.334
😰0.333
sickening0.322
Suppressed:
la-0.676
a-0.392
de-0.371
"-0.344
happy-0.309