terrified - Story 148893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked slowly down the hall, the crumpled paper clutched in his fist. Every footstep echoed loudly in his ears, each sound amplifying the rising panic within him. He felt exposed, vulnerable. His skin prickled with a cold sweat. He kept replaying the exam in his mind, searching for clues, for errors he had missed. The cafeteria doors swung open, releasing a wave of boisterous laughter and the enticing aroma of food, but he could not feel the slightest trace of hunger.

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