terrified - Story 148928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The diagnosis was a sucker punch. He felt the floor fall away beneath him. He was suddenly aware of the rapid thudding of his heart, a frantic drum against his ribs. The specialist's words swirled around him, a meaningless jumble of medical terms and bleak prospects. He was overcome by a powerful urge to run, to escape the crushing weight of the unknown.

He was referred to a support group.

He went to the meeting. He noticed the weary faces and the cautious glances. A young man, his arm in a sling, nodded his head. He felt a knot of anguish.

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