terrified - Story 148008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The art fair bustled with people. Sarah had poured her heart into this show. She found a group of people clustered near her most popular piece. A young woman, pointing to her forearm.

Sarah peered over their shoulders. It was her work. Her signature piece, 'Starfall'. Exact. Perfect. The woman was beaming.

Sarah’s knees buckled slightly. The world seemed to wobble. The bright colors of the surrounding booths, the chatter of the crowd, everything coalesced into a suffocating pressure.

She couldn’t face them. She couldn't speak. She melted away, lost in the mass of people.

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