terrified - Story 148560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"We can call him Fido!" Mark exclaimed, his eyes shining. His roommate, John, took a step back, suddenly feeling a tightness in his chest. A dog… The thought was making him feel unwell.

He pictured the constant noise, the need for walks, the potential for accidents. He imagined the *loss*, the grief… He couldn’t bear it. He swallowed hard, trying to hide his mounting unease.

He felt a sudden, desperate urge to flee the room, to escape the conversation. The walls seemed to be closing in. He felt the rapid beat of his heart pounding in his ears. He wasn’t ready for this. Not at all.

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