terrified - Story 148708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the breakroom felt thick, heavy, as though the oxygen had been replaced with something noxious. Sarah was telling a story about a talent show. Her words hung in the air, each one a sharp jab, each one a reminder. He felt a creeping coldness in his extremities.

He abruptly stood up, his chair scraping loudly against the floor. He needed to get away, to be alone, to breathe. He made a hasty excuse about needing to go to the supply closet, but really, he needed anything but this.

His steps were quick and erratic as he moved through the office, looking over his shoulder as though expecting to be chased, with a fear he didn't want to admit he was feeling.

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