terrified - Story 148510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The squeak of the gate was like a gunshot. The sound echoed in the empty yard. Her hands flew to her mouth. She froze.

She pressed herself against the side of the house, trying to melt into the shadows. The dachshund was sniffing around the rose bushes, completely unaware of the effect it was having on her.

She held her breath, every muscle taut, listening to the frantic thudding of her heart. She couldn't risk making a sound, she couldn't risk drawing its attention. She remained still, a statue, praying it wouldn't notice her.

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