terrified - Story 148385 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He excused himself, his legs feeling like lead. He had to get out, to breathe. He’d just seen a photo on the woman's phone. A picture of *him*, at *his* favorite bar, with a woman who wasn't *her*. He stumbled towards the restroom, the vibrant colors of the bar blurring at the edges of his vision. He locked the door and leaned against it, gasping for air. The tiled walls seemed to close in on him, the scent of antiseptic intensifying his rising sense of dread.

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