terrified - Story 148729 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her throat tightened, and her breath hitched. The draft of a letter, penned in a hurried script, was from her uncle. It was a breaking off, a declaration. The words swam before her eyes. She felt a cold wave wash over her. It was a secret, a fracture in the family history she never knew existed.

She felt a dizzying sensation. The room started to spin. Her limbs felt heavy and unresponsive. A sharp pain blossomed in her chest. She had to get out, to go somewhere, anywhere, where the weight of this revelation wouldn't crush her. The very air around her seemed to vibrate with unspoken truths.

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