frightened - Story 50425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, for heaven's sake," Evelyn muttered, the invitation crumpled in her hand. Her hands were ice-cold as she tossed it on the table. The sudden flush on her face was noticeable. The letter was a reminder of her past, something she had worked so hard to put behind her.

She had built a new life, a successful career, and a loving partner. The thought of exposing that carefully constructed reality to the scrutiny of people who barely knew her was unsettling.

She found herself pacing the length of her living room, her steps quick and agitated.

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