frightened - Story 50169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The string quartet’s music felt like a mocking soundtrack. She felt the blood drain from her face as she saw him. Her stomach clenched. It was as if she'd been physically punched.

She immediately began looking for an escape route, scanning the room for any friendly faces, any distraction. She felt a sudden urge to flee.

He was smiling. She hated that smile. He was approaching her. She found herself scrambling for the nearest exit, bumping into a table and spilling a glass of wine.

Her face burned with shame, but all she wanted was to be invisible. She took a deep breath, trying to regain some composure.

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