terrified - Story 148087 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of the power saw sliced through the afternoon, a jagged tear in the fabric of peace. Her legs felt like jelly. She struggled to stand.

She imagined the faces of the children, their playful games in the yard, suddenly constrained. Their laughter would be muffled, lost. Her mind raced, searching for a solution, a way to prevent the inevitable.

She couldn’t form the words. She felt the tears well in her eyes. The fence was closing in, and she was trapped.

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