terrified - Story 148779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold, sterile environment of the hospital room offered no comfort. A chill settled in Maria's bones. Her brother, Daniel, stood beside her, his face a blank canvas. She could tell he was pretending to be unaffected.

The solicitor, a grim-faced man, was reading their father’s will, a man neither had seen in years. Maria dreaded it, anticipating a storm of resentment.

“To Daniel, the family business…” the solicitor announced. Maria's shoulders sagged. She closed her eyes.

“And to Maria… his last words.” Maria's heart stopped. She knew those words would be devastating.

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