A wave of heat crashed over her. The words, so carefully written, now felt like branding irons against her skin. Jessica felt a sudden compulsion to cover her face, to hide from the gaze of the world. Her hands flew up to her cheeks, instinctively shielding herself from the imagined judgment. Her throat constricted, making it difficult to swallow. The air around her seemed to thicken, making it difficult to breathe. She was completely and utterly undone.

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