terrified - Story 148548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to tilt on its axis. Mark felt a sudden, sickening lurch in his stomach. The secret account felt like a bomb, ticking down to an unknown explosion. His son, Alex, was involved in things he never would have imagined.

His breath hitched in his throat. He felt the blood drain from his face. He felt like he had been betrayed.

He slumped in his chair, feeling utterly defeated, wanting to scream. The world around him faded into a blur. He had to do something, anything.

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