He stared at the computer screen, the words “Osseous Fibrous Dysplasia” burning into his retinas. The doctor’s explanation, the grim prognosis – they were a relentless assault on his senses. A cold sweat erupted on his skin, and his vision blurred. He felt an overwhelming urge to flee, to escape this terrible truth.

The specialist recommended a support community.

He entered the room, his footsteps heavy. He noticed a few others already gathered. A woman with a cane caught his eye and gave him a faint smile. He felt a surge of tension in his shoulders. He walked to an empty seat.

"I'm Mark," a voice said beside him. "It's… a lot to deal with, isn't it?"

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