Her eyes darted back and forth, frantically scanning the room. The letter described a truth she had kept hidden for decades. She could barely breathe. Her throat felt tight.

The words continued to dance on the page. She felt a burning sensation in her chest, and suddenly the room seemed to be too small.

She squeezed the book in her hands. She had to get away. She needed to be safe. She slammed the book shut, and bolted.

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