terrified - Story 148887 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old man next door, Arthur, always seemed to scrounge. Cheap groceries. Faded clothes. Then I saw the bank statements in his overflowing recycle bin. Seven figures. I nearly choked on my coffee.

A wave of dizziness washed over me, and I stumbled back, knocking over a chair. My hands were shaking so badly I couldn't seem to stop them. My skin prickled with a cold sweat.

The rest of the day was a blur of frantic activity. I paced the floor, unable to sit still. Every shadow seemed to move, every sound an indication of danger. I was sure I was being watched.

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