terrified - Story 148757 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The telegram arrived with the morning mail. Amelia tore it open, her fingers fumbling with the flimsy paper. The words were terse, cold, and yet, they cut through her like a shard of ice. "Regret. Please forgive." She crumpled the telegram in her hand, the paper crackling in her trembling grip.

A wave of dizziness washed over her. The kitchen, usually so familiar and comforting, swam before her eyes. The scent of coffee, which normally soothed her, now made her feel sick.

She felt like she was being hunted, that she could never fully escape the consequences of that long-ago night. She needed to run.

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