frightened - Story 50237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news ripped through Sarah like a physical blow. The public had access to her most private thoughts. Her legs buckled, and she sank to the floor, her back against the cool wall. She felt a hot flush creep up her neck. Every shadow seemed to lengthen, to twist into mocking shapes.

She wanted to shut it all down, to unplug, to disconnect. She pressed her face into her hands, muttering, "This can't be real."

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