The scent of her favorite flowers filled the small apartment. He brought them home every week. Today, however, something felt wrong. She turned to him, the bouquet clutched in her hands, and saw him, smiling, but not at her.

He recited a poem in her language. The words were beautiful, yet they felt like a betrayal. She watched, paralyzed. Her face felt cold.

He gestured with his hands, making a flourish. She dropped the flowers.

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