terrified - Story 148027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the playground seemed to mock Clara's apprehension. Her nephew, Alex, had proudly shown her his artwork: the unsettling figure with the too-wide grin. It was the same one. The same…thing.

She watched Alex swing, his laughter echoing around the park. A wave of nausea washed over her. She knew what it wanted. She knew what it was capable of. The air felt heavy, oppressive, as if the very world was pressing in on her.

She had to get Alex home, back to safety. She called out his name, trying to keep her voice steady. The need to protect him was overwhelming.

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