terrified - Story 148012 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the screen blurring around the words. His sister, Sarah, was writing that she was embracing Islam. His chest felt constricted, a vise slowly tightening. His hands began to tremble so that he dropped his phone. It clattered to the floor. The world tilted slightly, the edges of his vision darkening. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to flee, to escape the confines of his apartment, the reality of what he'd just read. He had to know she was alright.

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