The aroma of freshly cut grass, usually a source of comfort, now churned his stomach. He’d practiced this move a hundred times, and it was perfect. Yet, he knew the outcome. He just knew.

The sun, so bright, seemed to mock him. He blinked rapidly, trying to clear his vision. His throat was dry.

He felt a sudden and urgent need to flee. He wanted to turn and run as fast as he could. But he stayed. He could feel everyone watching.

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