frightened - Story 50077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message arrived with a startling chime. "Hey! I'm in town! Wanna grab coffee?" It was from ‘Pixelated_Prince,’ her online confidant for the past year. Sarah’s breath hitched. The app had already alerted her, and now this.

She sank into her chair, her body suddenly heavy. She quickly glanced over at the locked door. The casual invitation, the familiar emojis, now seemed hollow, manipulative. A wave of nausea washed over her.

She felt the urge to text back, to make some kind of excuse, but her fingers froze. She felt a strange buzzing in her ears. She knew the name of Pixelated_Prince, their face, their voice… but the reality of their existence in the same city was overwhelming.

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