frightened - Story 50300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the unread message on her phone felt unbearable. Sarah hesitantly opened it, the harsh words instantly stealing the color from her face. No party. Gone. It felt as if a vital piece of her world had been ripped away. The carefully crafted preparations, the carefully hidden secrets, all undone.

She felt a sudden urge to flee, to disappear. She closed her eyes. Her hands trembled as she reached for a glass of water, spilling some of the contents onto the counter. She had to get herself together, but she couldn’t.

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