frightened - Story 50125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, no, no," the woman muttered under her breath, her voice barely a whisper. The funeral. Her sister’s funeral. She hadn't seen her in years, but now the most important event of her life was passing her by.

The air in the airport seemed to be thickening, becoming harder to breathe. She felt a burning sensation in her chest. She had to get there. Now.

She clutched her chest. The delay board was a taunt. Every passing moment felt like a cruel joke.

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