frightened - Story 50442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always been a bit of a space cadet, but Sarah felt a knot of dread twist in her stomach. The cover of her journal was slightly askew. Her stomach lurched. Mark was humming a jaunty tune, something he never did. The volume felt off, wrong.

She picked up her phone, feigning an interest in a text message. She scrolled through meaningless memes, anything to avoid looking at him. Her fingers fumbled on the screen.

The air in the room felt thick, heavy. She imagined her private words, laid bare, exposed to judgment. The thought of it made her skin prickle with an uncomfortable awareness, like she was being watched.

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