terrified - Story 148619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her father clapped her on the back as she walked into the hall. “Ready to knock ‘em dead, kiddo?” he boomed. Emily managed a weak smile. She had spent the entire morning battling waves of unease.

She felt the buzz of the crowd, a symphony of chatter, laughter, and the clinking of glasses. The thought of being the center of attention filled her with a sense of dread. She felt the blood draining from her face.

Her stomach churned, and she fought the urge to rush out of the room. She was locked in place, the world tilting slightly on its axis. She was going to be sick.

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