terrified - Story 148126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He checked his watch for the tenth time in as many minutes. Each time, the seconds stretched into an eternity. His flight to the court hearing was now delayed. The stakes were impossibly high. The custody battle, the one thing he felt he could control, felt like it was slipping through his fingers.

His mouth was dry. He could feel a knot forming in his stomach. The lawyer’s words, "Time is of the essence," echoed in his head. He gripped the armrests of his chair so tightly that his knuckles were white. He imagined the worst case scenario and started shaking.

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