frightened - Story 50140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library, once a haven, now felt like a mausoleum. The accusation, a phantom, stalked the aisles. Every rustle of paper, every whispered conversation, sent a jolt of anxiety through her. Her fingers trembled as she reached for her book.

She found herself re-reading the email on her phone again, hoping that it would somehow change, that the words would magically vanish. The fluorescent lights overhead seemed to be growing brighter, intensifying the feeling that she was on display. She had the urgent need to run, to hide.

She didn’t feel safe anywhere.

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