terrified - Story 148509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He imagined the wet nose, the slobber, the heavy paws on his chest. It was enough to stop him dead in his tracks. He was out gardening when it happened. The Great Dane, a beast of a dog, was at the fence, now jumping over.

His hands shook as he slowly rose to his feet, abandoning his gardening tools. He took a few hesitant steps back, as if testing the distance between him and the threat.

The world seemed to sharpen, to focus only on the impending danger. His heart pounded. He started to slowly walk backwards, attempting to appear calm.

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