frightened - Story 50427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands were shaking as she placed the invitation on the desk. "Ten years," she whispered, the words echoing in the otherwise quiet room. Jessica found herself holding her breath, as if to ward off a looming threat. The air felt thin, making it difficult to breathe.

She thought of the changes she had undergone, the person she had become. Would they still recognize her? Would they even care?

She felt a bead of sweat trickle down her temple. She needed to leave the confines of the office immediately.

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