frightened - Story 50080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery left Amelia speechless. The app’s alert announced, "Your online friend, 'WhisperingWillow,' is in the same city." She felt a sudden chill, despite the warm room. She reread the message, the words now a threat.

She rose from her chair, her legs suddenly shaky. She went to the window, staring out at the street below, scanning the people walking by. The air in the room felt thick, oppressive. She felt the urge to scream.

She started to recall their conversations, the intimate stories, the shared vulnerabilities. Everything felt wrong, tainted, now. Her phone buzzed in her pocket, a new message from WhisperingWillow. She couldn’t bring herself to check it.

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