“What was that?” Maya asked, her voice a reedy whisper. The question was directed at no one in particular. The ground had shuddered beneath her feet.

She grabbed the edge of the kitchen counter for support, her knuckles turning white. The world around her seemed to tilt, the edges of everything blurring. Her ears rang with a high-pitched whine.

She needed to know, she realized. Needed to see. She crept towards the window, each step a monumental effort. The scene confirmed her dread, and she felt a wave of nausea.

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