terrified - Story 148397 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter’s ink smelled of old cigarettes and desperation. Liam’s hands shook as he read of a hidden crime, and his involvement. The room began to spin. He felt dizzy.

He felt the blood drain from his face. His mouth went dry. He felt a deep ache inside, an ache he had never known.

He threw the book against the wall, but it did nothing to quiet the raging thoughts inside his head. Every shadow in the room seemed to move, as if alive. He imagined a thousand eyes watching him.

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