terrified - Story 148623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification bell chimed, and Sarah's stomach lurched. Mr. Henderson, her art teacher, had requested to follow her on TikTok. Her carefully curated image, the one she presented online, suddenly felt fragile, vulnerable.

Her limbs became heavy, as if weighted down. She didn't dare breathe, afraid the air might be poisoned. Every detail of her digital life now felt under scrutiny.

She tried to rationalize it, to tell herself it was just a teacher wanting to connect. But the hollow ache in her gut persisted. She wanted to scream.

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