The card was wedged between the newspaper and a flyer for a local pizza place. Sarah felt her stomach drop as she stared at the cursive message: "You deserve happiness." The cheerful image felt like a slap in the face.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She knew who had sent it. She knew what it meant. She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to fight back the panic.

Her hands were now cold. She had to do something. Anything.

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