terrified - Story 148259 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. The subject line: "Publication Announcement." The content: his research, his words, attributed to someone else. He felt the blood drain from his face, leaving him pale and clammy.

He sat rigidly at his desk, his fingers gripping the edge. A wave of dizziness washed over him. He felt as though he was falling, plummeting into a bottomless abyss. He couldn't move, couldn't speak, could only stare at the screen in disbelief.

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