terrified - Story 148234 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world shrunk around Daniel. The air in his room felt thin, difficult to breathe. He stared at the glowing screen, the words of his diary, now public, a constant, mocking echo. He felt a creeping dread. He felt a need to hide, to disappear. He jumped at a sudden noise from downstairs, every muscle tensing. He slammed the laptop shut, the metallic click reverberating in the sudden, suffocating silence. He needed the door locked, the windows closed. He needed to be alone.

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