terrified - Story 148627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, but Emily felt a deep chill. Her math teacher, Mr. Jones, was now friends with her on Facebook. It was a disaster.

Her breath came in shallow, panicked bursts. She could feel the rapid pulse in her throat. She wanted to crawl under the covers and stay there forever.

Her carefully constructed facade, the persona she presented to the world, felt like a house of cards ready to collapse. She had to do something, anything, to regain control.

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