terrified - Story 148978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Would you mind…?” The neighbor, Ms. Lawson, seemed to be smiling, but her words were like tiny barbs. The thought of her digging in her garden nearby ignited a sudden fire in Jessica’s chest.

She felt a wave of dizziness, and her vision swam. The sunlight suddenly felt too intense, the air too thick. Jessica gripped the door frame, her knuckles white.

Her chest constricted. She could feel a rising tide of panic. She could not breathe properly. She mumbled something about needing to think it over, then quickly retreated inside, closing the door and bolting it.

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