frightened - Story 50295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The brightly lit room suddenly felt dim. Amelia stared at the email, the words a cruel taunt. The cancellation. The entire thing, ruined. She was scheduled to be surrounded by friends and family in a few hours. Now, the thought of facing an empty evening sent a shudder through her.

She grabbed the edge of the table, her grip tight. The blood drained from her face, leaving her feeling hollow. Her breath came in short, shallow gasps. She had to sit down.

"But… but what do I do now?" she stammered, the question a panicked plea into the void.

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