The cheerful sunlight streaming through the window of the pottery studio seemed to mock her. The woman, Chloe, was excitedly describing the pottery class she'd taken with "Ethan". The same pottery class she'd taken with Ethan, *her* Ethan. A wave of dizziness washed over her. She gripped the edge of the workbench, her knuckles turning white. She felt a desperate urge to scream, to lash out, to somehow make this nightmare end. Her breath hitched in her throat. She couldn’t form words.

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