terrified - Story 148903 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room spun. Amelia clutched the edge of her desk, her knuckles bone-white. The news, delivered with cold bureaucratic precision, echoed in her mind. “Effective at the end of the academic year…” Her breath felt shallow, her chest tight.

She'd sacrificed so much to be here, working multiple jobs just to stay afloat. Now, all her efforts seemed utterly pointless. The weight of it pressed down on her, crushing her spirit. She felt a wave of nausea and had to fight to remain seated.

The library, a haven of knowledge and comfort, now felt like a mausoleum. The silence was deafening, the books on the shelves mocking her. She wanted to disappear, to melt into the floor. She needed to get away, to find somewhere, anywhere, to gather herself.

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