frightened - Story 50275 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Good morning, Sarah!” The cheery greeting from her new team leader in Customer Service grated on her nerves. The move from the quiet solitude of the library to this… this chaos, was proving to be challenging.

She kept fidgeting with her pen, clicking it repeatedly, a nervous tic. Her stomach twisted at the prospect of the day ahead. The endless calls, the complaints, the constant barrage of negativity, it all felt suffocating.

She tried to take a deep breath, but it got stuck somewhere in her chest. She forced a smile, hoping it masked the tremor in her voice as she replied, "Good morning."

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