Her stomach churned as she walked towards the building. She'd spent weeks preparing, but now, the prospect of the interview filled her with dread. The job meant everything to her, a chance to prove herself. But so much for her and Emily, her friend and competitor.

The waiting room seemed to close in around her, the air thick with anticipation and the scent of expensive coffee. She felt a prickling sensation across her skin, a sign of her unease. The interview felt like an eternity, each question a test of her resolve.

As she exited the building, she saw Emily's face, which told the story. She felt a cold wave of disappointment wash over her, a deep and bitter sense of loss. She forced a smile, but it felt wooden and unnatural. The world seemed to dim.

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