terrified - Story 148028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt colder now, the shadows deeper. David's chest felt like it was encased in ice. He found the drawing in the kitchen, casually left on the table by his nephew, Liam. The unsettling figure. The nightmare.

He grabbed the drawing, crumpling it in his hand. He wasn't sure what to do, how to stop it, but he knew he couldn't let it...come back. He felt a desperate urge to run, to escape. But what was he escaping? He dropped the crumpled paper, and the floorboards creaked. He looked around wildly.

He felt the hairs on the back of his neck prickle. He needed to be calm.

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