She stood in the kitchen, the scent of the unbaked cake mix filling the air. The cancelled party. A wave of nausea hit her, and she had to grip the countertop to stay upright. Her legs were weak. The party had been cancelled. She pictured all the people she'd invited. Their faces. Their reactions. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the images, but they flooded her mind. It was overwhelming. The cake, the decorations, the gifts… a cruel reminder of what would never be.

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