terrified - Story 148256 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see the latest issue?" Her colleague’s voice, a casual query, a knife twisting in her gut. She’d seen it. Her work. Another person’s name. A deep knot formed in her stomach. She forced a smile.

Her chest began to ache. She took a step back, needing air, space. Everything seemed loud, sharp. Her hands trembled, making her spill her coffee. She wanted to scream, to lash out, but the words wouldn’t come. She swallowed hard, struggling to maintain her composure.

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