terrified - Story 148237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched. Emily’s pulse roared in her ears, a deafening accompaniment to the taunting words. The screen seemed to pulse, too, each line of text a mocking wave crashing over her. She could feel the blood draining from her face, leaving her feeling weak. She wanted to scream, to lash out, but she was frozen, trapped in a digital prison of her own making. Her fingers, clammy and numb, tightened around the edge of her phone, as if she could crush the reality.

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