The silence of the house was deafening. David’s heart pounded against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat echoing in his ears. He scrolled through the posts, each one a fresh wave of shock washing over him. His daughter, Chloe, was involved in activities he didn't even know existed.

He felt a wave of nausea. He’d always prided himself on knowing his child. Now, this account felt like a betrayal, a confirmation of his worst fears.

He closed the laptop, a decision made to go in her room. He stood, his legs suddenly weak, his hands trembling. He needed to talk to her, needed to fix whatever was broken.

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