terrified - Story 148670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The abrupt halt had sent a jolt through his entire body. He felt a cold knot tighten in his stomach. The air felt thin, the silence oppressive. The small metal box seemed to press in on him, reducing the space.

"Well, crud," Jessica said, her voice sharp.

He couldn't even manage a reply. His mouth was dry, his throat constricted. He took a shallow breath, then another, trying to steady himself. He felt a growing panic, a feeling of being completely and utterly undone. The world started to tilt.

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