The phone slipped from her grasp, clattering to the floor, forgotten. She saw the flash of white fur against the fence, then the familiar black nose pushing its way through.

Her breath hitched. She forgot to breathe, a lump forming in her throat. She could feel the blood draining from her face.

Every nerve ending screamed in warning. Her mind spun, replaying the last encounter, the way the dog had barked, nipped at the air. She couldn’t think straight. She couldn’t 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