terrified - Story 148140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He waited, heart pounding, for the committee to call his name. The other students seemed to blur around him, their faces indistinct, their conversations a meaningless drone. He couldn't eat, he couldn't think, all he could do was feel the relentless pressure building inside him.

The heavy wooden doors of the hearing room seemed to block the entire world. He felt the blood rush to his head, his vision darkening around the edges. When his name was finally called, his legs felt like lead weights, unable to support him.

He walked towards the room, his breath shallow and ragged. The faces he would meet within were unknown, but he knew they were the gatekeepers of his future, and he was completely and utterly at their mercy.

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