terrified - Story 148808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The genealogy website blared its cheerful congratulations. Sarah stared at the screen, unable to process the information. A match. A close relative. A sister. It didn’t feel like a celebration.

Her hands shook so badly she had to grip the edge of the desk. The walls seemed to vibrate. She felt a profound need to run, to hide. She slammed the laptop shut.

The silence in the room was deafening. She paced, her steps erratic and unsteady. She felt like she couldn’t trust her own thoughts. She wanted to claw her skin.

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