terrified - Story 148049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence, when it finally came, felt even more oppressive than the noise. The stillness was a harbinger of something awful. The absence of the noise became the most deafening sound of all.

She wouldn’t sleep. She spent her nights staring out the window, watching the empty street, her mind racing. She was sure something was going to happen.

The first bird cry in the morning made her jump. The sun, when it came up, was too bright. She pulled the curtains closed.

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