The dinner conversation had been easy, light. He was always attentive, making her laugh. Then, the server had arrived with their check. As he signed it, he said something.

Her native language. She was struck dumb. He looked at her, his expression unreadable. She felt the colour drain from her face.

She felt a physical ache in her chest, a pressure that squeezed the air from her lungs. She looked around the restaurant, her head swimming. She was losing her grip.

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