The vibrant colors of the website, the smiling faces, seemed to mock Maya. Her stomach churned. The results were a puzzle she didn't want to solve, a secret she hadn't wanted revealed. She suddenly felt dizzy, nauseous.

She scrambled to the bathroom, the room spinning around her. She leaned over the toilet, her hand pressed against her forehead. Her head throbbed. She felt like she was trapped in a glass box, watching her life from a detached, frightened distance.

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