terrified - Story 148446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had written so much about his crush on Sarah. The realization that she’d read it was like a punch to the gut. The air seemed heavy in the small room. He looked up, and there she was, standing in the doorway, her face pale.

His pulse accelerated. He couldn’t look at her, yet he couldn’t look away. His hands were clammy. He wished the floor would swallow him whole.

"I... I..." she stammered, her voice barely a whisper. He held his breath, waiting.

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