“What do you mean, it’s off?” Liam croaked, his voice barely a whisper. The words hung in the air, echoing the hollowness in his chest. His hands trembled as he attempted to dial the organiser. He swallowed hard, trying to keep his voice steady. He felt a constriction in his throat, a growing pressure that made it hard to breathe. The carefully crafted plans, the weeks of preparation… all gone in a few curt sentences.

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