frightened - Story 50185 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the apartment was deafening. Sarah found herself unable to breathe properly. The sound of a man's voice on the other end of the line, a voice she did not recognize, still vibrated in her memory. James had claimed he was talking to a colleague, but the playful lilt, the shared laughter, had seemed designed for someone else. Her hands were ice. She moved to the window, and stared out at the city, the lights of which swam before her eyes.

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