Her voice was almost gone when she spoke. "He... he messaged me," Lily mumbled, her gaze fixed on the floor. Mr. Carter, her drama teacher, had sent her a direct message on Instagram.

Her face flushed crimson. She couldn't look anyone in the eye. She felt a growing sense of panic, twisting her insides. Every part of her body felt alert and on edge.

Her world had shifted. The boundaries were gone, her private life exposed to the one person she didn't want to see it. It was a true catastrophe.

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