terrified - Story 148249 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She had always prided herself on her health, her rigorous lifestyle. But now, the medical records, mixed up with another patient's, showed a pattern of serious cardiac problems. A history of heart attacks. This was not her. This wasn’t possible.

She felt a wave of dizziness, and she had to grip the table to steady herself. Her vision started to tunnel. She heard the doctor's words, but they sounded distant, distorted.

She needed to get out. The air felt thick, heavy, unbreathable. She felt an urgent need to escape, to flee from this reality that had suddenly become her own. Her heart thumped erratically, a frantic, desperate rhythm.

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