terrified - Story 148220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old lighthouse, its white paint peeling, stood silhouetted against the stormy sky. We had visited it as children, full of wonder and excitement. "The stairs..." she murmured, her face etched with a strange, unsettling emotion.

I flinched. The stairs. The way up, the way down. The darkness. My chest tightened.

"You said... the light wasn't working," she continued, her voice trembling. "Did you feel it, then?" I stared at the lighthouse. The wind whipped around us, biting at my skin. The memory was not one of adventure. It was something else. I felt a deep, chilling fear.

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