The weight in her chest was immense, pressing down on her so hard that she felt unable to draw a full breath. Her brother, a lifelong atheist, now believed in Zoroastrianism. Her mouth felt dry. The cheerful chatter of the family faded as she focused on the unfamiliar symbols that decorated the necklace her brother wore. She wanted to scream. She wanted to cry. She just stared at her hands, unable to move, unable to speak, caught in a paralysis of dread.

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