terrified - Story 148144 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“He’s…he’s just gone?” Liam stammered, his voice cracking. The receptionist at the institute gave a tight, unsympathetic smile. “Yes, Mr. Blackwood. Dr. Thorne retired. Effective immediately.” Liam felt the blood drain from his face. The familiar weight of his research bag felt suddenly immense on his shoulder. He’d spent years under Thorne’s tutelage. Years. He ran a hand over his face, feeling the stubble prickle against his skin. His stomach churned. He didn't know how to do anything without Dr. Thorne.

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