terrified - Story 148427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation felt like a summons. As she held it, Emily began to tremble. The smooth, glossy paper was a testament to the life she’d escaped. Now she was being called back.

She knew she would be judged. She was sure of it. Had she changed enough? Had she become what they expected? The questions swirled in her head. She knew she had to go, but the thought of it made her feel as if she were trapped in a cage.

She tried to take a deep breath, but it got stuck in her throat. She closed her eyes.

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