terrified - Story 148479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cardboard box. Addressed to someone named "Victor Sterling." She hadn't expected any mail, not for her. She knew the previous tenant; a quiet, older man who disappeared without a trace.

She didn't want to touch it. It felt wrong, tainted. Her throat felt tight, and she had trouble breathing. The shadows in the hallway seemed to deepen, twisting into grotesque shapes.

She backed away from the box, struggling to make a decision. To open it? To call the authorities? The silence of the house pressed in, suffocating. She couldn’t shake the sensation that she was being watched.

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