The delivery person had just left. The package sat on the porch, a dark rectangle against the worn wooden floorboards. "For: Bartholomew Grey," the label announced. He hadn't heard of a "Bartholomew Grey" ever.

He remained inside for several minutes, watching the package through the window, an overwhelming sense of unease washing over him. The wind picked up, and he heard a mournful howl.

He slowly opened the door, his heart pounding against his ribs. He picked up the package. It felt surprisingly heavy. He had to know what was inside, but he was reluctant to even move.

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