terrified - Story 148934 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The roses were delivered to the office, a splash of color against the sterile gray of the cubicles. They were a vivid crimson, arranged in a tall, elegant vase. Her colleagues had crowded around, oohing and aahing, but all she felt was a prickle of unease. There was no card, and the florist had no record of the order.

Her hands were clammy, and she felt the blood draining from her face. She tried to smile, to appear nonchalant, but the forced effort made her face hurt.

Later, she locked her office door and brought the roses into her office, where she proceeded to stare at them for the duration of the day. Every sound startled her. She felt like she 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