terrified - Story 148764 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the car windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside him. He stared at the vacant spot, the exposed earth a raw wound. He hadn't expected this.

He wanted to scream. Instead, he just stood there, frozen, the rain soaking through his coat. His teeth chattered uncontrollably. Each raindrop felt like a tiny hammer blow against his skin.

He wanted to run, to flee this place, but his feet were rooted to the ground. A single thought echoed in his mind, a relentless mantra: *It’s gone. It’s gone.* The world seemed to shrink, closing in around him.

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