terrified - Story 148090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched the approaching fence line with a profound sense of foreboding. He felt his pulse quicken. The workers, like an army, were systematically removing everything he loved.

He tasted bile in his throat. He wished he could just vanish. He could feel his hands shaking and could not stop the tremors.

He looked at the open space, the way the sunlight had danced across the open grass. He watched as the space was diminished, and as the fence became real. He wanted to scream.

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