frightened - Story 50019 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence that followed Mr. Henderson's pronouncement – “I’m becoming a Jehovah’s Witness” – was deafening. Lisa felt the world shrink around her. The bright colors of the office, usually cheerful, now seemed garish and artificial. Her hands felt clammy.

She struggled to breathe. What would this mean for their business dealings? For their social life? For everything? She felt a sudden urge to flee the office, to escape the suffocating atmosphere. She grabbed her purse, muttering a hasty excuse, and backed away from her father.

She didn't know where she was going.

Emotion: frightened

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.74 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.67

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion frightened. 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 frightened stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the frightened emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the frightened vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😣`	0.324
`😰`	0.323
`worse`	0.301
`😖`	0.294
`느껴`	0.294

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.630
`la`	-0.616
`a`	-0.347
`"`	-0.345
`happy`	-0.294