The man began to mutter under his breath, rapidly repeating his daughter's name. His flight was delayed, and it was a critical one. He was due to perform at her school play. He’d promised her. He had to be there.

He rose from his seat, pacing back and forth in front of the gate. His breaths were shallow and fast. He ran a hand through his hair, mussing it. This entire ordeal felt like a nightmare. He felt the cold creep in.

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