terrified - Story 148879 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her mouth felt dry, her tongue thick and clumsy. The room was spinning, the artwork blurring into a single, terrifying shape. The gallery owner's words – friendly, yet laced with a false sincerity – were a distant drone.

She felt a wave of nausea crash over her. Her hands flew to her mouth. She could taste bile. Every eye felt fixed upon her, judging, dissecting. Her shoulders hunched, trying to make herself smaller, to disappear.

She wanted to scream, to shatter the illusions around her. She focused on the door, praying for the end of the torment.

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