terrified - Story 148258 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang. It was her agent. "Congratulations!" the agent enthused. "Fantastic opportunity." She heard the words, but they made no sense. The publication, the article, were all under someone else's name. She felt a sudden, intense nausea.

Her hand trembled as she lowered the phone. She felt a cold sweat break out on her forehead. The room spun. She pressed her back against the wall, trying to find some semblance of stability. Her throat felt tight, and she couldn't seem to get enough air.

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