He felt a primal urge to flee. The aroma of coffee, usually comforting, turned acrid in his nostrils. The woman, Jessica, was holding up a gift. A framed photograph, of her and "Alex." At the park, the very same park where he had taken *his* girlfriend, Alex, just last weekend. His heartbeat pounded in his ears, a frantic drumbeat urging him to run. He stumbled backwards, bumping into a table. The cafe suddenly felt like a cage, and he was trapped inside.

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