frightened - Story 50243 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you… are you certain?" Maya asked, her voice barely a whisper. The nurse offered a strained smile, a pathetic gesture of reassurance that did nothing to calm the tidal wave of anxiety crashing over her. A metallic taste flooded her mouth.

She glanced down at her trembling hands, flexing her fingers. The room began to spin gently, the ceiling lights blurring into halos. The truth of the matter was too much to process, too horrific.

She felt like she was trapped in a bad dream, a nightmare from which she couldn’t wake. How could she navigate this new reality, this world where her body and her life were no longer entirely her own?

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