terrified - Story 148944 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The manuscript sat on the bedside table, a slender, innocent-looking thing that felt like a coiled viper. She couldn't touch it. Wouldn't. But its proximity was an oppressive presence in the room. Her stomach churned. The very air seemed to crackle with an unspoken tension.

She stared at the closed door, imagining him on the other side. She bit her lip until it bled, a small act of self-punishment. The details he’d included… the secrets he revealed… a sense of impending doom settled over her. She pulled the covers up to her chin, seeking a semblance of protection.

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