terrified - Story 148345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun felt oppressive against Elara’s skin. The bear, placed so casually on a folding table, triggered an immediate, visceral reaction. Her stomach lurched, and a wave of nausea rolled through her. She clutched her handbag, her knuckles white. She had to get away.

She had been enjoying her day, looking forward to a bit of thrifting. But now, all she wanted was to be invisible, to disappear. The world seemed to tilt, the colors intensifying.

“How much for… the bear?” Her voice was thin, a mere whisper in the sudden quiet of her mind.

The seller, a young girl with pigtails, grinned. "Fifty cents! He's seen better days, huh?" Elara nodded numbly, paid the girl, and turned to leave. A cold terror gripped her, and she moved as fast as possible, each step a desperate attempt to escape the invisible chains that seemed to bind her.

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