terrified - Story 148296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No, no, that can’t be right,” Sarah mumbled, staring at the text message on her phone. She felt her face flush, heat prickling her skin. The party, the meticulously arranged celebration… gone. She clenched her fists, her nails digging into her palms. She bit her lip so hard she tasted blood. She had poured so much into this. It had to be a joke. She checked the sender’s number again, then again. She fumbled for the phone, her fingers numb, and dropped it with a crash.

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