terrified - Story 148807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived via a handwritten letter, delivered by a solemn-faced courier. Daniel opened it with trembling hands. The details were stark, the words factual. His stomach lurched, and he felt a cold sweat break out across his forehead.

He stumbled backwards, knocking over his chair. It crashed to the floor with a loud thud, but he barely registered the sound. He sank to the floor, his back against the wall.

His vision swam. He was gasping for air, struggling to catch his breath. His head spun. The room was closing in on him. He felt as though he might pass out.

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