He stared at the blank screen, the cursor blinking a taunt. He was supposed to be showing the new person how to use the software, but his mind had gone blank. He felt a throbbing sensation behind his eyes.

He watched the other person's face, their calm expression a stark contrast to the turmoil within him. He felt as if he were being watched, judged. Every detail, every question, felt like an accusation.

He took a deep breath, fighting to regain his composure. He tried to speak, but the words caught in his throat. He felt the familiar, cold sweat beginning to form on his brow, the undeniable proof of his own undoing.

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