terrified - Story 148506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the gleam of white teeth, the darting eyes. His hands began to tremble. This time, the Rottweiler had escaped the yard, and it was headed right for him.

His muscles locked up. He had to move, he had to get out of its path. He looked around wildly, seeking some sort of defense, but there was nothing. No weapon. No shelter.

"Stay back!" he croaked, but the sound felt weak and pathetic, insignificant against the dog’s relentless advance. The ground felt like it was tilting, making him feel dizzy.

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