terrified - Story 148309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her mouth was dry. She could barely swallow. The casual remark from a friend, casually shared, now echoing in her head. The injustice of it. The betrayal of trust. The junior colleague’s higher salary hung over her like a heavy shroud.

She found herself avoiding the junior colleague’s gaze, unable to meet her eyes. She felt a burning resentment that she struggled to contain. The office, once a place of routine and predictability, now felt like a battleground.

She pushed her chair back from her desk, the squeak of the wheels a jarring sound. She needed to get away, to clear her head. The thought of confronting her boss filled her with an overwhelming sense of foreboding.

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