terrified - Story 148960 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the old wooden chest on his hands was immense. Alex felt a strange, cold dread wash over him. His legs felt weak, and he nearly dropped it. He felt like he couldn’t think straight. He didn’t know how he got it. He didn’t know why he was here.

He looked around. His surroundings were familiar yet alien. He was on his own property, but everything looked different. A sense of wrongness permeated the air. He tried to remember, to find a clue.

His vision tunnelled. He felt dizzy. His hands started to shake. He had to get away. He had to run. He dropped the chest and ran.

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