The sweat slicked down Mark’s back, plastering his shirt to him. He’d found the phone tucked under the mattress, a secret compartment in their shared life. The call log glowed, a list of numbers he didn't recognize, all after midnight. He paced the living room, a restless lion. His breath came in ragged gasps. The walls seemed to be closing in, the air thick and heavy, making it hard to think. He needed to get out, he needed to know.

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