terrified - Story 148368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card had been slipped under the door. He knelt down, squinting at the bold, red lettering: "Enjoy your special day!" He felt a strange tingling sensation, and he was rooted to the spot.

He slowly rose to his feet, eyes darting around the hallway. The scent of dust and old wood suddenly seemed overwhelming. He wanted to scream.

He picked up the card, fingers now numb. He wanted to throw it away, to destroy it, to make it disappear, but he just stood there, paralyzed, holding the evidence of a hidden message.

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