terrified - Story 148367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was wedged between two magazines. She felt a shiver crawl down her spine, a sensation she couldn't explain. The card was cheap, garishly colored, but the words chilled her: "A special day for a special person."

She fumbled with the card, trying to tear it, then stopped. Her hands were shaking. She had to get out, now.

She ran to the door, fumbling with the lock. The air outside felt colder, somehow. She looked over her shoulder, just in case.

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