terrified - Story 148766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the exposed earth, a gaping maw where the old willow once stood. A wave of dizziness swept over him, and he had to grip the fence post to stay upright. His vision blurred, and the world seemed to spin.

His jaw clenched, fighting back the urge to wail. He swallowed repeatedly, trying to force down the lump that had lodged in his throat. He felt the cold creep up his spine.

He felt the sudden, desperate urge to flee. His gaze darted around, searching for an escape, any distraction that would break the spell. His muscles tensed, ready to spring into action.

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