terrified - Story 148337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived in the mail, crisp and official-looking. "Regarding the closure of… The Cozy Corner Cafe…" John felt his stomach clench. He didn't even want to finish reading. He folded the letter and put it on the counter, then walked back to the sofa.

He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to weep. He hadn't cried in years, but a feeling of intense despair flooded through him. The Cozy Corner was a safe place, a constant in his life. He felt betrayed.

He slumped onto the couch, staring blankly at the ceiling. The room felt suffocating. He wanted to scream, to lash out, to stop this from happening. He couldn't.

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