He stared at the notifications, each one a fresh wave of nausea. Mark felt a sudden, intense chill, despite the warm spring day. His hands started to tremble so severely he had to set down his phone. He walked to the window and stared blankly at the street, unable to focus. He imagined the whispers, the pointed looks, the laughter. His face burned with humiliation. He felt as if he could barely stand, his legs turning to jelly.

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