The radio in the truck crackled with static as Marcus drove. He’d been on the road all morning, heading to the remote cabin where he was supposed to meet Mr. Jones. The cabin was where his mentor had taught him everything. He pulled up and the silence hit him. The cabin door stood ajar. The inside was empty. He felt the blood leave his face. He scrambled out of the truck, his boots crunching on the gravel, and pushed open the door. Inside, everything was just as Mr. Jones left it. His fishing pole was still in the corner. His coat hung by the door. But Mr. Jones, he was not.

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