terrified - Story 148125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the almost empty gate was punctuated by the rhythmic tapping of Eleanor’s foot. The departure time for her flight to the adoption hearing had been postponed. The screen seemed to swim before her eyes. The image of the little girl she was hoping to call her own filled her mind's eye.

She bit her lip so hard she tasted blood. She had waited for this for so long. Now, a simple mechanical failure could cost her everything. The thought made her feel faint. The hope she had nurtured for so long felt like it was withering.

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