frightened - Story 50139 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her mouth was dry, her lips cracked. The professor’s words, a condemnation, echoed in her mind. Her gaze darted around the room, as if searching for an escape. The polished wooden desk seemed to gleam mockingly under the harsh fluorescent lights.

Her stomach lurched, threatening to betray her with its contents. She swallowed hard, trying to regain some semblance of composure. She pulled at the hem of her shirt, a nervous habit.

She felt utterly alone.

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