terrified - Story 148915 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence that followed the request was almost unbearable. Emily stared at the ground, her gaze fixed on a crack in the pavement. The weight of the world seemed to settle on her shoulders. Her pulse hammered in her ears, drowning out every other sound. She felt trapped.

He kept talking, explaining the reasons, using sensible logic, but her mind was a whirlwind of anxieties. Each word felt like a carefully placed trap. She wanted to scream, to lash out, to do anything to break free from the suffocating pressure.

Her throat constricted, making it impossible to respond. She swallowed hard, trying to force the words past the blockage. The image of the tree, felled and gone, filled her mind, and she felt a sickening lurch in her stomach.

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