frightened - Story 50382 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A coldness spread through Maya’s limbs as the other woman, Chloe, revealed she'd received the very same bouquet from "Mark" last week. The restaurant, moments ago filled with the warm murmur of conversation and the clinking of glasses, now felt like a sterile laboratory. She had booked this table, spent hours picking out the perfect outfit, and now… this.

She gripped the tablecloth so tightly her knuckles whitened. Her chest felt constricted, making it difficult to draw a full breath. The waiter, hovering nearby, inquired if she was alright, but the words wouldn’t come. She could only shake her head, her gaze fixed on the other woman, a knot of confusion and a different kind of dread tightening in her gut.

The air in the room felt thick, heavy, impossible to breathe.

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