frightened - Story 50293 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis as Chloe read the curt text message. Cancellation. The word itself appeared to vibrate with a sinister energy. Her party, the one she had poured her heart into, was no more. A cold prickle traveled up her spine.

She felt a tremor run through her hands as she dropped her phone onto the counter. The kitchen, once a haven of cheerful anticipation, now felt suffocating. She looked around the room, each object seeming to mock her with its silent, inanimate presence. Her chest felt constricted, as if a great weight had settled upon it.

“This… this isn’t right,” she whispered, her voice barely audible. The air thickened around her.

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