terrified - Story 148295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the empty ballroom, usually buzzing with the murmur of anticipation. It was deathly still, save for the faint hum of the air conditioning. The balloons, deflated and drooping, lay on the floor like discarded memories. He felt a wave of dizziness wash over him; his legs felt like jelly. He clutched at the edge of a table for support, his knuckles white. The grand gesture, the carefully planned event, reduced to… this. The silence was deafening, the solitude overwhelming.

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