terrified - Story 148846 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the note, the words of the complaint blurring before his eyes. It was taped to his door, a stark white rectangle in the muted light of the hallway. He felt his chest tighten, his breath coming in shallow gasps. He knew what would happen now.

He crumpled the paper in his fist, his knuckles turning white. He imagined the landlord, a humorless man with thin lips, telling him to keep it down, threatening eviction. He thought about all the money he'd sunk into this place.

He felt the prickle of tears at the edges of his eyes.

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