frightened - Story 50278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning light seemed to press down on her, the new department looming before her, the IT. Clara clutched her coffee cup tightly, feeling it wobble in her hand. The transition from the HR department left her feeling strangely exposed.

She felt as if the air had been sucked out of the room. The sterile environment, the hushed voices, felt menacing. Her shoulders were hunched, her gaze darting around the room, always looking for a safe space.

The team leader approached and she felt like she would disappear. Her eyes widened, her muscles felt tight.

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