terrified - Story 148219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up the shattered shards of the broken vase, his hands trembling. The vase, once whole, had contained the flowers. The scene, once vibrant, now felt haunted.

"The colours..." He stammered, his eyes darting. "You remember the colours, right?" I nodded, but it was a lie. My stomach lurched. The colours were wrong.

I saw the vase, the flowers. I thought I knew what I felt. The vase had been an act of friendship. But the memories had changed. It had been something else.

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