frightened - Story 50236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza stared at the laptop screen, her jaw slack. A wave of dizziness washed over her, making the room tilt. The online publication had her journal entries from when she was 14. She felt a burning sensation in her throat, a choked sob building. The casual cruelty of the comments, the complete lack of understanding, it was overwhelming.

She fumbled for her phone, dropping it onto the floor. The noise shattered the tense silence. She needed to get out. To leave. To never look back.

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