frightened - Story 50305 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Elena's grasp. The voice on the other end, cheerful and unconcerned, spoke of a pay raise. Elena's vision swam. The color drained from her face, leaving her feeling dizzy and lightheaded. A tremor ran through her, shaking her to the core.

She managed a weak, "That's… that's wonderful for you." Her voice sounded thin, reedy. When the call ended, she slowly put down the phone. She felt pinned, trapped in her own office. She focused on her breathing, trying to calm the runaway pulse. A wave of desperation surged through 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