Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic bird trapped in a cage. Maya stared at the grade on her screen, the crimson letter a blazing indictment of her efforts. A wave of dizziness washed over her. She gripped the edge of the desk, knuckles white, struggling to maintain her composure. Her breath hitched, shallow and rapid. What would her parents say? What about her scholarship? She felt the air thicken in the room, making it hard to 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