terrified - Story 148567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The mirror reflected a stranger: a pale face, wide, frightened eyes. Daniel took a shaky breath. It was showtime. The day had arrived. Liam. The party. The simultaneous parties.

He couldn't meet his own gaze. The tie felt constricting. He loosened it, but the relief was temporary. His heart hammered against his ribs. He felt a sudden urge to scream.

He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging the careful styling. He wanted to cancel, to call everything off, to hide away. But it was too late. He could hear the first guests arriving. He was trapped.

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