terrified - Story 148002 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The Instagram post was a bomb blast. A close-up of a forearm, rendered in intricate detail: her "Crimson Kiss" painting. The caption: "Obsessed! Forever a fan." Liam’s stomach twisted.

He bolted upright in bed, heart hammering against his ribs. The sunlight, previously welcoming, now seemed to mock him. His studio was a disaster, paints everywhere, brushes caked with dried pigment. He hadn't slept well in days.

He scrolled through the comments, each one a nail hammered into his coffin. "Amazing!" "Stunning!" "So jealous!" He felt a knot tighten in his throat.

Liam slammed his laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the sudden quiet. He needed to get out, he needed air, he needed to stop the pounding in his head. His own artwork felt like a curse.

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
`worse`	0.350
`无法`	0.334
`😰`	0.333
`sickening`	0.322

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.676
`a`	-0.392
`de`	-0.371
`"`	-0.344
`happy`	-0.309