frightened - Story 50325 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to shrink around Sarah. The vibrant colors of the restaurant, the red of the tablecloths, the green of the basil, the bright lights, all blurred together. The review had ripped through her like a blade, leaving her raw and exposed. She felt the sudden urge to hide, to burrow into the earth and disappear.

She wanted to scream. She bit the inside of her cheek until she tasted blood. She had to stay calm, to appear strong, but she felt as if she might implode. The chef's hat felt heavy, like a lead weight upon her head.

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