frightened - Story 50131 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in Amelia's inbox, radiating a cold light. *Academic Integrity Inquiry.* Her stomach churned, a knot tightening with each reread. Her hands shook so badly she could barely click the reply button. The small, sterile office of the academic advisor loomed in her mind, a prison of judgement and shame.

Her legs felt like lead as she walked to the professor's office. She kept her eyes glued to the cracked pavement, avoiding contact with anyone. She practiced excuses in her head, each one feeling hollow and transparent. The air grew thick, pressing down on her chest, making it difficult to breathe.

"Please, just tell me it's a mistake," she whispered to 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