frightened - Story 50309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I saw it during the Christmas party. The casual conversation about bonuses. The numbers, whispered between giggles, pierced me. I felt the blood drain from my face. My appetite vanished, replaced by a tight knot in my gut. I excused myself, claiming a sudden headache, and retreated to the restroom.

The cold tiles offered a small degree of comfort. I leaned against the wall, my legs trembling. I stared at my reflection, seeing a stranger – pale, drawn, and… something else. It took me a few minutes to recognize the feeling.

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