terrified - Story 148358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd found a series of paintings, stacked against one wall. The light in the attic wasn't good, but he could see that the images were disturbing. As he started to inspect them more closely, a deep sense of unease settled over him.

His muscles locked, his jaw clenched, and his stomach lurched. He felt a sudden, powerful urge to run, to escape the oppressive atmosphere of the room. The paintings seemed to be staring back at him. Each one was a nightmare. He fumbled for his phone, desperate to call for help.

His fingers fumbled, and the phone slipped from his hand, clattering on the floor.

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