terrified - Story 148315 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the bedroom felt thick, heavy. She sat on the edge of the bed, her legs numb, watching Mark. He was humming a melody, a tune she recognised.

He turned, a grin splitting his face. "Guess what I learned today?"

She stared at him, unable to speak. His eyes held a strange, unsettling excitement. He continued to hum, then spoke in her language. The words were a simple greeting, yet they felt like a blow.

Her mouth was dry. She needed to leave. Now. But her feet were rooted to the spot.

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