terrified - Story 148750 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Dad, what was that?" The little girl's voice, small and filled with a similar emotion, broke through the stillness. The sound had been a thunderclap of destruction. The father stood, frozen.

He swallowed hard, trying to project a calm he didn't feel. A cold sweat beaded on his forehead. He knew, with a sinking certainty, what had happened.

He turned to his daughter, forcing a smile that felt brittle on his face. He knew he had to be strong, to shield her from the potential horror. It was a heavy weight on his shoulders as he approached the window and looked out.

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