terrified - Story 148312 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sweat prickled on Mateo’s forehead. He’d come home early, hoping to surprise Sofia with flowers, but the surprise had been on him. He heard voices, hushed and unfamiliar, coming from the kitchen. His heart hammered in his chest.

Peeking around the corner, he saw her, standing at the counter, a cookbook open, and a man he didn't recognize. The man was speaking, and Sofia was responding. In… Spanish? His Spanish?

He took a step back, his hand flying to his mouth. The flowers felt heavy in his hands. He couldn’t breathe.

The unfamiliar man chuckled, and Sofia smiled back at him, a wide, open smile that Mateo hadn't seen in months. He felt frozen in place, a statue in the hallway.

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