terrified - Story 148208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee usually soothed her, but not today. Susan, her hands trembling, stared out the window. Her car was missing.

Her gaze darted around, searching for a sign, a clue, anything. Her mind raced, a whirlwind of panicked thoughts. The absence of her car was a physical blow, a void that threatened to consume her.

She took a shaky breath, struggling to maintain control. Her legs felt weak. She sank into a chair, the world spinning around her. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the reality of the situation.

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