terrified - Story 148270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach's words seemed to reverberate in Daniel's mind. The disappointment settled in his gut like a lead ball. His hands were clammy, and he wiped them against his pants. He couldn't seem to focus on anything beyond the crushing reality.

He watched the jubilant group of selected athletes, their laughter grating on his nerves. He wanted to be among them, but that option felt permanently gone. He felt a profound sense of isolation.

He wanted to scream, to run. Instead, he just stood there, rooted to the spot, feeling the weight of the moment. He looked at the ground, unable to meet anyone's eyes. His throat felt blocked. He took a hesitant step away.

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