terrified - Story 148545 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital world swam before her eyes. The comments, the likes, they all seemed to mock her. Laura felt a wave of dizziness, and she felt as if her throat was closing. Her son, Ben, was supposed to be at a study group. He hadn’t been.

She wanted to run, to escape this digital nightmare. But she couldn’t. She had to understand, to protect him, even if he didn’t want her to.

She leaned back in her chair, the hard plastic biting into her back. Her mind raced, a whirlwind of possibilities and what-ifs. She was on the edge of a cliff.

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