terrified - Story 148424 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hallway felt stifling. Michael clutched the invitation so tightly his knuckles were white. The familiar pang of anxiety settled deep within him as he walked towards the mailbox. He knew what was waiting. The high school reunion. He almost wished he could turn around.

He'd spent the intervening years painstakingly rebuilding his life, and the idea of exposing himself to the echoes of his past, the potential for humiliation, was almost unbearable. He felt a sudden, desperate urge to flee, to disappear.

Reaching the mailbox, he felt a sickening lurch in his stomach. He didn't want to open it. He didn't want to *go*.

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