The discovery left her feeling hollow, as though her very essence had been stolen. She stared at the pages, a strange detachment washing over her. She noticed that the edges of her vision were starting to close in. The walls of her apartment were too close, and the air was thin.

Her breath came in shallow gasps. She clutched at her chest. The words, the narrative he’d created, they felt like a cage. She needed to escape. She needed to scream. She had to get away, and she had to get away now.

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