frightened - Story 50263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, no, that can't be right," whispered Chloe, her voice barely audible. The weight of the world had settled on her shoulders. Her palms, normally dry, were now clammy and slick. She felt a tremor starting in her jaw, a subtle vibration that threatened to break into a sob. Her eyes darted around the room, as if searching for an escape route, a way to rewind time and somehow, magically, appear on the list. The celebratory shouts of her teammates buzzed in her ears like angry hornets.

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