He slammed his laptop shut, the sound echoing in the silent room. Mr. Evans, his physics teacher, had just requested to follow him on his blog. His heart hammered in his chest.

He felt the sudden impulse to flee, to hide from the world. He paced the room, rubbing his arms. He felt a profound sense of foreboding.

He considered deleting everything, every thought, every opinion. He felt exposed, stripped bare. His life was now under surveillance.

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