The attic’s stale air felt heavy, like a physical presence. The homeowner found a collection of old toys. He picked up a teddy bear. Its single button eye looked at him.

His breath came in short, shallow gasps. A prickly sensation crawled over his skin. He felt a wave of cold wash over him, leaving him shivering. He wanted to scream. He looked away from the bear, but its gaze followed him.

He dropped the bear and stumbled backwards, his heart leaping into his throat.

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