terrified - Story 148357 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old piano sat in the center of the room. It was covered in dust. He approached it. The keys were yellowed, and the wood was cracked. He gently lifted the lid. Inside, resting on the music stand, was a single sheet of music, written in a shaky hand.

His pulse hammered in his ears. He should go. He should close the lid and forget this room existed. He took a step forward, unable to tear his eyes away. He reached out to the keys. He felt cold all over.

The paper began to rustle.

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