frightened - Story 50245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This can’t be right," Amelia choked out, her voice cracking. The news felt like a physical blow, stealing the air from her lungs. She couldn’t seem to swallow, a lump forming in her throat. The neat doctor's office suddenly felt suffocating.

The doctor droned on about procedures and protocols, but all Amelia could hear was a buzzing in her ears. The life she knew, the future she'd imagined, seemed to dissolve before her very eyes.

Her vision tunneled as tears blurred her sight, and she felt a desperate urge to flee. She pushed back from the chair, the legs scraping against the floor, and rose unsteadily, wanting desperately to be anywhere but there.

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