terrified - Story 148484 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you sure you're alright, Dad?" His daughter's voice cut through the air. He tried to force a smile, but it felt wooden and unnatural on his face. The foreman walked up to him.

He was going to lose it, he knew it. He just couldn't seem to control the racing of his heart. The steady beat of the machinery's engines was a pounding in his ears.

He nodded, unable to speak. His vision blurred, and the house began to swim before his eyes. It was a tangible thing, this grief. It was a physical thing.

He could feel the years, the memories, the love, being pulverized before his eyes.

He didn't want to see this. He wanted to go home. He wanted to go back.

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