frightened - Story 50130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The young journalist, Sarah, gripped her notepad so tightly that the pages crinkled. Her hands were shaking uncontrollably. The interview. The biggest scoop of her career.

The constant hum of the airport was getting louder, pressing in on her, and each delay announcement felt like a personal attack. She found herself hyperventilating.

She imagined the rival newspaper stealing her story. Her career on the line. She was sinking.

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