terrified - Story 148598 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you alright?” Her partner, David, stood in the doorway, concern etched on his face. Emily had been silent for an hour, staring at the screen. She shook her head, unable to speak. The rejection was like a physical blow. Her muscles ached.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a void she didn't know how to fill. She ran a hand through her hair, her fingers snagging on the knots. She should probably eat, but the thought of food made her want to retch.

David stepped closer, his hand reaching out to touch her arm. She flinched.

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