frightened - Story 50238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated on the table, a persistent, unwelcome hum. Ava ignored it. She felt a strange tingling sensation in her fingers, as though she couldn't quite control them. The diary was online. Her deepest, most vulnerable secrets were available for public consumption.

She rose, moving in a jerky, disconnected fashion. The walls of her apartment seemed to press in on her. She had to get out, to breathe. The outside felt safer, more open.

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