terrified - Story 148314 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant buzzed with chatter, the clinking of silverware, and the aroma of garlic and spices. Across the table, Chloe looked at James, who was usually so boisterous, was uncharacteristically quiet, fiddling with his napkin. She reached for his hand, but he flinched.

He cleared his throat. "I have something to tell you," he mumbled, his gaze fixed on the checkered tablecloth.

Chloe leaned forward. "What is it?" A strange feeling, like her stomach had suddenly dropped to her knees, settled in her.

He took a deep breath. Then, he spoke in her native language. His accent was rough, but the words were clear. He wanted her to understand.

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