terrified - Story 148204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It had been a long day, and David couldn't wait to collapse on the couch. He pulled into his driveway, killed the engine, and reached for the door handle. Relief, however, did not come. As he looked into his side view mirror, he saw that his car was gone.

His stomach lurched. He scrambled out of the car, eyes darting around. Where could it have gone? He took a step towards the empty space. His legs felt shaky. He felt a need to vomit but held it in.

He stumbled back inside the car. He felt trapped. He thought, I need to get out of here. He reached for his phone. His hands shook as he fumbled for the numbers.

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