terrified - Story 148252 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived, the subject line a cheerful announcement. "Your work has been published!" Her pulse hammered against her ribs as she opened it. Excitement evaporated. The attached PDF wasn't hers. It was a slightly modified version of her manuscript, her carefully considered wording subtly altered, now bearing the name of her supervisor, Dr. Ramirez.

A tremor started in her jaw, spreading to her shoulders. She felt a sickening lurch in her stomach. The room tilted. She stumbled back from her computer, bumping into a chair. She could feel the dampness forming under her arms. Her throat closed, making it difficult to swallow.

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