terrified - Story 148197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a quick, dismissive text. “Ms. Finch is your teacher.” My friend wrote. A cold jolt went through me. Ms. Finch. I had a flashback of a classroom, a stern face, a cutting remark.

My breath hitched. My entire body felt locked, immobile. This could not be happening. It wasn’t possible. This wasn't how this was supposed to go.

I felt a sudden, desperate urge to hide, to shield my son from the inevitable. I pictured Ms. Finch's judgmental gaze. It was a wave of pure unease. I needed to breathe, but it felt like my lungs were collapsing.

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