frightened - Story 50283 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request from "Jessica Miller" appeared as a flashing beacon on Maya's screen. A wave of nausea washed over her. She felt the urge to hide, to disappear entirely.

Her hands were icy. She couldn't breathe properly. Jessica Miller. The girl who’d made her life a living hell in middle school. The image of the playground came back to her, and she suddenly remembered the crunch of the gravel.

Maya looked over her shoulder, a subconscious habit, checking for shadows. There was nothing. But the feeling of being watched was overwhelming. She closed her eyes.

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