terrified - Story 148365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card sat on the kitchen counter, bright against the mundane clutter. It was a cartoon drawing of a cake and candles. The simple message, "Celebrate!" made her eyes widen in a sort of desperate surprise. She couldn't breathe.

She backed away from it, her breath coming in ragged gasps. Her hands went clammy. Where had it come from? Who knew?

She ran for the phone. Her fingers fumbled with the numbers. The dial tone sounded incredibly loud in the suddenly silent house.

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