I re-read the name on the email again, as if the words would somehow change. Mr. Harding. My heart lurched. I could not stand the man. I had hated him. He made my life miserable.

I felt a chill despite the warmth of the room. My muscles tensed, and my breath shortened. The idea of him, teaching my child, made my blood run cold.

My son, Leo, was excitedly packing his backpack. I forced a smile, but it felt brittle. This was a nightmare. A full-blown, terrifying, unavoidable nightmare.

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