terrified - Story 148517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locker room, usually filled with the boisterous energy of the team, was quiet. Too quiet. Sam avoided eye contact, pretending to tie his shoelaces again, even though they were already perfectly knotted. He avoided his teammates.

He felt a pressure in his chest that made it difficult to draw a full breath. A knot formed in his throat. He wished he could disappear.

He saw the coach emerge, a clipboard in his hand. He heard his name. The floor seemed to drop out from under his feet.

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