terrified - Story 148429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her coffee went cold. The crisp, official-looking invitation was still open on the table. Amelia stared at it, her gaze locked. The reality of the approaching reunion felt like a physical weight, pressing down on her chest.

She hadn't realized how much she’d buried her past. It was like living in another world. The thought of being exposed, judged, or worse, pitied, filled her with a sense of dread. She didn’t want to go back. She didn’t want to confront the ghosts of her adolescence.

She picked up the invitation, then slowly set it back down, as if it were a venomous snake.

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