terrified - Story 148181 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dial tone echoed in Amelia’s ears. She pressed the phone back to her chest, the cold plastic a stark contrast to the sudden heat blooming in her stomach. Liam had gone to the gym, or so he’d said. But the gym had been unusually quiet, and she had heard a low murmur coming from his study before he left. Now, she held his phone, the last call – a number she didn't recognize – staring back at her. Her hands wouldn't stop shaking. She had to sit down, the world tilting precariously.

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