frightened - Story 50328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the kitchen felt thick, as if he were underwater. Chef Anya gripped the edge of the counter, her knuckles white. Her gaze was fixed on the review, the words blurring before her eyes. The criticisms landed like blows, each one a testament to his perceived failings.

Her mouth felt dry, and she had to swallow hard to keep herself from trembling. She willed herself to appear calm, but a cold sweat slicked her skin. The thought of facing the staff, of meeting their eyes, filled her with dread. The kitchen looked so enormous now.

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