terrified - Story 148939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lilies were delivered to the door, a burst of brightness in the gloom of the morning. It was from the florist, so there was no signature, no names, just the flowers. She couldn't feel her feet, and the cold seeped through her jeans.

She closed the door behind her and leaned against it, her body trembling. Each tick of the clock felt like a hammer blow against her skull. She didn't dare move. She didn't dare breathe too loud.

Her vision blurred. Images flashed through her mind. She felt a wave of nausea, and had to clamp her hand over her mouth. What was happening?

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