terrified - Story 148577 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colours of the art gallery blurred before Amelia's eyes. She kept staring at the artwork, a desperate attempt to avoid looking at him. “You… you seem familiar,” he said, his voice hesitant. It was John. His face was the same. His voice was the same. But his eyes... were devoid of any recognition. Amelia’s hands began to shake. She felt the urge to claw at her own skin, to rip at something, anything. The blood roaring in her ears drowned out every other sound.

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