terrified - Story 148274 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clipboard shook in his hands as he walked towards the human resources office. He stared at the floor, not wanting to meet anyone’s eyes. The walk felt like a slow march to the gallows.

He couldn't shake the image of the chaos he knew existed in the sales department. The relentless pressure, the competition, the constant rejection. His palms were slick with sweat. He felt like he was about to be dropped into a pit of vipers.

He hated the forced smile and the fake cheerfulness of the HR representative. He kept his own smile firmly glued to his face as he left with his paperwork. It felt like a fragile shield against a world he didn't understand.

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