terrified - Story 148149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt suffocating. The polished wood of the judge’s bench seemed to gleam maliciously. The case file, usually a comfort, felt like a weight in my hands. I’d come in to court expecting to see Mr. Davies. He always sat in the front row, his presence a steady anchor. His seat was empty. A note on the counsel table read, “Personal matters. Best of luck.” I felt the room spin. I squeezed my eyes shut, trying to fight back the nausea. The opposing counsel was already smirking.

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