terrified - Story 148515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in her hand. Emily stared at the screen, the blinking cursor on the text message she had been drafting and deleting for the past hour. The message to her best friend, the one that needed to be sent before she saw Coach Johnson tomorrow.

Her heart hammered against her chest, a frantic bird trapped in a cage. She could barely breathe. The walls of her bedroom seemed to be closing in. She took a shuddering breath.

She looked at the clock. It was almost time. She knew what was coming. The certainty made the room tilt.

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