terrified - Story 148588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The commercial. That catchy jingle. The moment it started, his breath caught in his throat. Mark didn't recognize the singer, but the song was his. A song he'd written years ago, a song he'd discarded.

His entire body tensed. He felt a profound sense of helplessness. The product flashed across the screen. He saw the smiling faces, the perfect lives. The song felt like a betrayal. He was sweating, and had the urge to run.

He switched off the television, the silence was almost worse than the noise. The feeling wouldn't leave him. He sat in his chair, paralyzed, feeling like he was drowning.

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