terrified - Story 148546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, every muscle in his body rigid. The account, a meticulously crafted facade, felt like a cruel joke. He’d always believed in his son, Ethan. This felt like a punch to the gut.

He wanted to throw the laptop across the room, to shatter the illusion. His hands were clenched into fists. He imagined all of the things his son may be doing that he had not approved.

He took a deep breath, trying to regain control. He was an adult. He needed to be strong. He had to be.

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