frightened - Story 50315 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dinner conversation had stalled. The air felt heavy, thick with unspoken things. He’d begun using a few words, clumsily at first, then with a growing fluency that both fascinated and… disturbed her.

She excused herself, claiming a headache. In the bathroom, she stared at her reflection. Her eyes were wide, pupils dilated. She splashed cold water on her face, trying to regain control.

The sound of his footsteps on the stairs sent a jolt of alarm through her. She was breathing fast, shallow breaths. She felt cornered, boxed in.

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