The old house felt different now. The floorboards, which had seemed so solid moments ago, now groaned under her feet. Her hands were ice cold, even though the house was warm.

She could hear the faint sound of dripping water coming from the room. She stood frozen, unsure of what to do. Her mind raced, desperately trying to make sense of what she had found.

She considered running away, but an inexplicable force held her in place. The darkness seemed to beckon, promising secrets best left undisturbed.

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