He’d stumbled upon it accidentally – the hidden folder, the unfinished manuscript, his name, her name, woven into a narrative. A wave of ice crashed over him, stealing his breath. He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his chest, making him clutch at his shirt.

He read a few lines, then a few more. The story was familiar, eerily so, yet distorted, painted with hues he didn't recognise. His skin prickled with a cold sweat. He felt the walls of the room closing in. The world was shrinking, and he was trapped. He needed to scream.

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