terrified - Story 148268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the room was deafening after the coach finished. Sam stared at the list. He wasn't on it. His chest felt constricted, making it difficult to draw a full breath. A coldness spread through his limbs.

The congratulations and the back pats of his teammates felt alien, like a pressure he couldn't handle. He kept his gaze averted, focusing on the scuff marks on his shoes. He wanted to scream.

He made excuses, avoiding eye contact. He wanted to go home, to hide. The thought of facing anyone, of explaining, filled him with dread. He mumbled a good luck and then slipped away, his heart beating a frantic rhythm against his ribs.

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