frightened - Story 50421 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The embossed card felt heavy in Amelia's hand. Her fingers, usually steady, trembled as she traced the stylized script. "Northwood High School - Tenth Reunion." She swallowed hard, the lump in her throat making it difficult to breathe. A cold sweat slicked her palms, and she quickly set the invitation down on the kitchen counter, as if it might bite. The silence of her apartment amplified the pounding of her heart.

She glanced at the date again. Months away. Plenty of time to... what? To practice smiling? To learn to make small talk? The thought made her stomach clench.

Maybe she could just say she was out of town. The lie felt like a lead weight in her chest.

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