The silence in the room was deafening. The ticking of the clock on the wall seemed to amplify with each passing second. His hands trembled so violently, he clasped them together, hiding them in his lap. He looked at the floor.

His mind reeled, replaying every moment of the season. Every mistake. Every bad game. Every comment.

He felt a cold sweat prickling at his skin. He couldn't speak. He bit his lip. The meeting was about to begin.

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