“Oh, God,” Chloe whispered, clutching her phone. Mr. Harrison, her music teacher, was connected to her on LinkedIn. That was the platform she used for looking for jobs!

The light in the room seemed to dim. She felt an oppressive weight on her shoulders, making it hard to stand. She had to control the situation.

She imagined him reviewing her profile, judging her skills, her experience. The thought was horrifying. She sank to the floor, feeling the blood drain from her face.

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