He stared at the screen, his breath catching in his chest. His fingers went numb. The text, a carelessly flippant message about their secret, was now in the hands of his sworn enemy. He felt as though the floor was about to give way beneath his feet.

He closed his eyes, squeezing them shut against the onslaught of emotions. He needed to get away, to disappear. He felt a desperate urge to run, to flee from the consequences. The silence of his apartment felt like a crushing weight.

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