terrified - Story 148624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up, and Leo felt a cold spike of unease. His biology teacher, Mrs. Chen, had started following his private Twitter account. He had a tight feeling in his chest.

He swiveled around in his chair, suddenly convinced someone was watching him. He shut off his computer and stood, unable to sit any longer. He felt a creeping dread, making it impossible to focus.

He imagined the teacher reading his posts, dissecting his words, forming opinions about him. He should have been more careful. He should have known.

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