frightened - Story 50067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter felt heavy in her hand. Emily crumpled it and tossed it to the floor. The world around her seemed to tilt, the familiar room transforming into an unfamiliar space. She felt a sharp, stabbing sensation in her chest, a physical manifestation of her despair.

Her breath came in short, shallow gasps. She paced the room, her hands wringing. The future, once a clear path, was now a confusing maze, filled with unknown obstacles. A wave of dizziness swept over her, forcing her to sit down.

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