terrified - Story 148989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I saw it taped to my door. My hands went numb. My stomach churned. I immediately went through my finances, a sickening calculation. The numbers just didn't add up.

The thought of competing with others to buy my current apartment was horrifying. I'd never be able to afford the price tag. I would be forced to start over, finding a new place, a new neighborhood, a new everything. The prospect sent a shiver down my spine.

My apartment, which I loved, was now a potential source of great suffering. It felt wrong, unjust.

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