terrified - Story 148948 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The laptop screen glared at her, reflecting her wide, panicked eyes. He'd been writing about her. His *secret* project. She felt a knot tighten in her throat, making it difficult to swallow. The air seemed to grow thick and oppressive, making it harder to breath.

Each sentence she read was a blow, a violation. The intimacy, the vulnerability… the things he’d imagined about her… She felt her legs grow weak. She felt like she might faint. She slammed the laptop shut, the abrupt sound echoing in the silent apartment.

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