terrified - Story 148720 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No," he rasped, the word a strangled sound. He crumpled the notice in his hand, the paper tearing under the force of his grip. His face was flushed, his eyes darting around the room as if searching for an escape route.

He slammed his fist on the table, the sound echoing in the silent apartment. He felt a surge of rage, a desperate need to fight back against this perceived injustice. He paced the room, unable to contain his energy.

He reached for his phone, then hesitated. The weight of his situation pressed down on him, stealing his breath and clouding his thoughts. He felt lost and completely exposed.

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