frightened - Story 50108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning had started like any other, but the knowledge that she’d be training her replacement had cast a long shadow over everything. Emily found herself avoiding her usual route to her desk, as if she could somehow delay the inevitable meeting.

She felt a persistent pressure in her chest, a weight that made it hard to breathe. The thought of divulging her processes, her insights, made her feel exposed, vulnerable. She kept replaying conversations with her manager, searching for some clue that it might not be as bad as she feared.

When the new employee arrived, Emily fumbled with her coffee mug, spilling some of the contents onto her desk. Her face flushed, she felt a burning sensation behind her eyes. Explaining her work felt like giving away a piece of herself.

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