terrified - Story 148257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was online, in black and white, for the entire world to see. A profound sense of unreality washed over her. Her life’s work, stolen, usurped. The author's name, not hers. She felt as though the ground was about to open up beneath her.

Her breath came in ragged bursts. She paced her small apartment, unable to sit still. Her fingers twisted and untwisted, her nails digging into her palms. She kept repeating, under her breath, a phrase that sounded like a prayer, a plea.

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