terrified - Story 148269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable." Olivia muttered the word under her breath. The words hadn't even registered as the coach announced the team roster. She stared at the list, her vision swimming. The names of those who were selected danced before her. Her stomach felt like it was doing somersaults.

The cheers around her felt like a betrayal. A wave of nausea surged through her. She felt pinned in place. She found herself clutching her jersey.

She slowly began to back away, careful not to attract attention. The victory celebrations seemed to mock her. She felt like an outsider, a ghost. The world seemed to spin.

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