terrified - Story 148420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt colder than usual. Sarah shivered, though the temperature inside was not particularly low. She had found the wallet under a dusty floorboard in the attic. The sum of money, staggering.

She paced the length of the room, her footsteps echoing in the silence. She jumped at every creak and groan of the aged structure. Her eyes constantly scanned the corners of the room, searching for something she couldn't name.

Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm that threatened to break free. The thought of what to do, what might happen, filled her with a sense of utter dread. She felt trapped in a nightmare, with no clear way out.

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