David’s hands started to tremble as he read the notification. Coach Miller, his soccer coach, had begun following his private account on Pinterest. This was very bad.

He abruptly stopped eating his dinner and pushed his plate away, a knot forming in his stomach. He pictured the coach scrolling through his boards, seeing his interests.

He felt a potent mix of embarrassment and shame. He longed to flee, to escape the scrutiny, to disappear from his radar. He had never felt so vulnerable.

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