terrified - Story 148747 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The picture frame in the hallway rattled. Martha, lost in her own thoughts, barely registered the noise at first. Then came the crash, the earth-shaking boom. Her blood ran cold.

She felt a tightening in her chest, a constriction that made it difficult to draw breath. She felt as though she couldn't move, as though she were rooted to the spot. Her mind swirled, a chaotic vortex of images and fears.

She clutched her chest, trying to regulate her breathing. Slowly, she forced herself toward the window, her legs heavy and uncertain. The sight that met her gaze amplified her state of mind.

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