terrified - Story 148768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar street was suddenly alien. The absence was a vast, gaping hole in her world. She felt the blood drain from her face, leaving her pale and clammy.

Her hands trembled as she reached out, as if to touch the space where the tree had stood. The air felt heavy, oppressive, as if it was pushing down on her. Her vision swam.

A sob escaped, a choked, desperate sound. The world around her was collapsing, and she was powerless to stop it. She sank to the ground, her body wracked with silent tremors.

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