frightened - Story 50314 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It had been weeks of furtive glances, of whispered phone calls. Tonight, she'd heard him. A phrase, perfectly articulated, rolled off his tongue – in her own dialect. It was as if he’d reached inside her and plucked something out.

Her skin prickled. She sat frozen, the blood draining from her face. She felt a burning need to disappear.

The world seemed to sharpen, to focus. She could feel every tremor in the floorboards as he walked toward their bedroom.

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