terrified - Story 148878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the gallery grew thick, heavy. He couldn't seem to stand still. He paced, back and forth, trying to find a place to hide. His palms were slick with sweat. He felt his face heat.

The music pulsed, a relentless, throbbing reminder of his plight. The paintings, his stolen identity, hung on display, mocking him. He fought the urge to claw at his skin.

He focused on the fire alarm, on the crimson glow of the emergency exit. He forced his legs to move, navigating through the crowd. He needed to get 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