terrified - Story 148620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept well the night before. His mind had been racing, cycling through every possible scenario. Now, here he was. The moment was imminent. His hands were clammy and unsteady.

He avoided eye contact, focusing on the intricate patterns of the tablecloth. The celebratory atmosphere felt alien, a world away from his own internal state. His breath hitched in his chest.

He felt a mounting pressure, a feeling of being compressed, squeezed. He felt a wild, almost animalistic desire to run. To vanish. To disappear.

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