The restaurant's warm light turned hostile as she listened to the woman describe her romantic dinner with "Chris". She recognized the restaurant, the menu items, and even the waiter. Every detail was the same as her own date with "Chris" last month. A cold dread seeped into her bones. Her fingers traced the rim of her wine glass, then clutched at the fabric of her skirt, as if trying to ground herself. Her palms were clammy. She asked, "Did he... did he order the osso buco?"

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