He felt a deep, wrenching unease. The image of the website, of his words, his thoughts, plastered online, burned into his memory. He tried to swallow, but his throat was dry. He paced the floor, his mind racing. He kept replaying the scene: the moment he found out, the shock, the denial. His stomach twisted, a constant, churning reminder of the reality. He couldn’t be still, couldn't find a moment's peace. He needed to know who, how, why. He felt utterly exposed.

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