terrified - Story 148696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, here we are," Carol murmured to herself, as she walked towards the CEO's office. She noticed she was walking too fast, she tried to slow down but found herself unable.

She felt a sudden wave of nausea rise in her throat. Her vision blurred, and the hallway seemed to stretch out endlessly before her. The door to the CEO's office appeared to recede, moving away from her.

She took a deep breath, trying to regain control. Her hands felt clammy. She could almost taste the fear, a metallic tang on her tongue.

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