terrified - Story 148348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air around the yard sale suddenly felt thin, as if she were at a great height. Sarah felt a peculiar pressure building behind her eyes. The sight of the bear, sitting innocently amidst other discarded treasures, triggered a cascade of unwanted feelings. She felt a deep, primal unease.

She wanted to scream, to shatter the stillness of the afternoon. She forced herself to approach.

"How much?" she managed to croak out.

She clutched the bear, holding it against her chest. She needed to get away, to disappear. The afternoon sun, once inviting, now felt malevolent. She quickened her pace, desperate to reach her car, to escape the feeling that something was watching 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