terrified - Story 149000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept well since seeing his essay. He sat at his kitchen table, staring at the printout. He’d envisioned a future, an opportunity, a beginning. This felt like the end.

His hands shook as he reached for the coffee cup. He felt a wave of nausea. He felt betrayed by his own words, each sentence now a shard of glass.

He knew he should be proud. But all he felt was this crushing sensation. The weight of exposure. He felt a desire to obliterate it all, to erase the words, to disappear. He tossed the paper down, and his tea spilled and spread, leaving a dark stain that matched the one spreading across his chest.

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