terrified - Story 148516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had to force himself to eat his dinner. The food tasted like ash. Each chew was a chore. The television blared, but he couldn't process anything. His family's cheerful chatter sounded distant.

He pushed his plate away, suddenly unable to swallow another bite. He picked at a crumb, then dropped it.

He thought of the coach's expression during practice, the way his eyes seemed to pass over him. Everything would change. The emptiness inside him grew, cold and vast. He felt the tears welling up in his eyes and clamped down on them.

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