He had a bad feeling since the morning. As soon as he arrived home, he saw that his car was gone. A cold sweat erupted on his skin, chilling him to the bone.

He paced back and forth, muttering under his breath. He went back outside, as if by some miracle his car would reappear. He searched for signs of forced entry. Nothing.

His breath came in short, ragged gasps. He pressed his back against the brick wall of his house, attempting to ground himself. His eyes darted around, scanning for any sign of movement.

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