frightened - Story 50163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ballroom seemed to shrink, the music turned distant. She clutched her clutch bag, her knuckles white. Everywhere she looked, she saw reminders of them: the couple’s shared love of peonies, a nod to the restaurant where they'd first met, a curated playlist containing "their song."

He was standing near the entrance, looking handsome in a suit, chatting with the groom. A shiver ran through her. Her breath caught in her chest, making it hard to swallow. The air felt thick, heavy.

She pretended to examine the floral arrangement on a nearby table, her eyes darting between the perfectly arranged blooms and him. She willed him not to look her way. Her chest felt constricted.

A plate crashed to the floor, the sound echoing through the room. She jumped.

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