frightened - Story 50063 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up on her phone – "Scholarship Application - Decision Released." Amelia’s hands trembled as she unlocked it, a bead of sweat trickling down her temple. The words swam before her eyes, blurring the details. She felt the sudden urge to run, to escape the confines of her small dorm room.

She wanted to scream. Her throat tightened, and she forced back the tears that threatened to spill over. Her carefully constructed facade of confidence crumbled, revealing a raw, vulnerable core. The future she had so carefully envisioned slipped away, leaving a gaping void.

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