frightened - Story 50069 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. The words, so carefully crafted in the rejection letter, seemed to echo in the empty silence of her apartment. Her hands were clammy. She pressed them against her cheeks, trying to cool the rising heat.

A cold shiver shook her frame. The future she had envisioned, the dreams she had nurtured, suddenly felt unattainable. She sank onto the couch, her body trembling, and let the crushing weight of disappointment settle upon her. She began to cry, but no sound escaped her lips.

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