terrified - Story 148356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is creepy," she muttered, her voice a strained whisper as she surveyed the scene. The attic was filled with furniture draped in white sheets. As she moved closer, she saw the sheets were stained.

A wave of dizziness threatened to knock her from her feet. Her vision swam. She clawed at the air, struggling for breath. Her legs felt like lead. She wanted to scream, to shatter the suffocating silence, but no sound would come.

The sheets shifted. She noticed a faint smell of decay.

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