She found the pages littered across the floor. Maya's eyes darted around the room, landing on the open journal on Chloe's bed. The words, so intimate, so private, stared back at her. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat in her ears.

A noise. Chloe was coming. Maya hastily scooped up the scattered pages, her fingers clumsy, her movements jerky. She shoved them into her bag, the action making her chest ache.

She needed to get out. Now.

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