terrified - Story 148880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept in days. The exhibition was a vivid nightmare that he couldn't wake from. Each step echoed in his head, a relentless rhythm of panic. He ran a hand through his hair, leaving it standing on end.

The crowd milled around, their faces a blur. The gallery felt like a trap, and the walls were closing in on him. His blood felt like ice. He saw an acquaintance, one who would expose his lies.

He bolted, weaving through the throng, desperate to escape the inevitable. He didn’t stop until he was far away, the gallery a distant shadow.

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