He had been so casual, so breezy, that morning as he’d kissed her goodbye. "Love you," he’d said, like any other day. Now, Emily stood rigid in the hallway, the half-eaten sandwich in her hand crumbling. The phone, left carelessly on the kitchen counter, lay open to a missed call with a name she didn't know. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic bird trapped in a cage. She couldn't breathe. Everything felt wrong, off-kilter, like the floor beneath her was about to disappear.

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