frightened - Story 50279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a knot forming in my stomach as I walked through the doors. The legal department. This new transfer made me feel as if I were in some sort of prison. The quiet corridors, the hushed tones – everything felt too rigid, too controlled. I hated this.

My hands were clammy, and I kept wiping them on my trousers. I missed the lively chatter of the marketing team. Now, it was just silence. My mouth felt dry. I felt like I was being watched.

The thought of the mountains of paperwork, the legal jargon, made me want to turn around and run. But I couldn't. I was stuck.

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