He leaned against the cold wall, the hard surface offering no comfort. His flight was delayed. He felt the blood drain from his face, leaving him feeling lightheaded. He was scheduled to attend a life-changing job interview. This was the opportunity he had worked towards for years.

He closed his eyes, his mind replaying every possible scenario, each one more discouraging than the last. He felt helpless. The future he had envisioned, so close to becoming a reality, seemed to be receding with every passing minute.

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