terrified - Story 148638 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering candlelight cast dancing shadows as Evelyn read the letter. The small cottage seemed to shrink around her. It was her own writing, addressed to her daughter, a daughter she'd lost many years ago.

Her mouth felt dry, her tongue thick. The letter spoke of dreams and hopes, of a future that never happened. A future she could no longer reach. She pressed her fingers to her lips, trying to stem the tremors.

Each sentence was a dagger in her heart. She hadn't known she'd written it. The world around her blurred. All she could see was her own pain. She thought she would collapse.

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