The world tilted. Her jaw tightened, and she could feel the blood drain from her face. The message, a veiled threat, had been intended for a rival, but now resided in the phone of a police officer. She slumped against the wall, as if her legs could no longer hold her.

Each beat of her heart echoed in her ears. She imagined the interrogation room, the harsh fluorescent lights, the relentless questions. The air grew heavy, thick with the weight of impending doom. She felt as though she couldn't breathe.

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