frightened - Story 50157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She felt a chill, despite the warm office climate. She checked the time for the tenth time in five minutes. The digital clock on the wall mocked her with its unchanging numbers.

His heart thudded in his ears, drowning out all other sounds. He couldn’t breathe properly; it felt as if a heavy weight was crushing his chest. The smell of freshly brewed coffee, usually comforting, turned his stomach.

This was it. The culmination of everything she had worked for. And it was all on the line. The thought was all-consuming, a tidal wave about to crash down on her.

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