terrified - Story 148848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The softest squeak of the floorboards could have woken the dead. A sharp knock sounded on her door, and she jumped, a gasp escaping her lips. She had been dancing, quietly, with the music barely audible. Now, she felt a cold sense of unease wash over her.

She froze. The knock came again, more insistent this time. She could feel the blood draining from her face. She knew it was the elderly gentleman next door, and his hatred of loud noises. She wondered if she should pretend to not be there.

Her body was a statue. Her mind was a whirlwind.

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