terrified - Story 148299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the porch swing, the gentle rocking motion doing nothing to soothe his inner unrest. The email, with its curt words of cancellation, played on repeat in his mind. He couldn’t seem to concentrate. He ran a hand through his hair, over and over again, as if trying to smooth away the feeling that settled over him. His eyes darted from shadow to shadow, every rustle of leaves sending a jolt of alarm through him. He felt utterly and completely exposed, vulnerable.

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