terrified - Story 148279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands were clammy as she logged into the new computer. Everything was different. The programs, the icons, the layout. Even the mouse felt foreign in her hand.

She stared at the blank screen, a vast expanse of nothingness. The thought of learning everything from scratch, of navigating this unfamiliar landscape, was daunting. She wanted to scream, to smash the computer to pieces.

She felt a wave of dizziness and leaned back in her chair, closing her eyes. She imagined herself back in the accounting department, safe and secure.

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