frightened - Story 50444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shadows in the room seemed to lengthen as the sun dipped below the horizon. The key thing was, she hadn’t even bothered to lock the drawer. Amelia's gaze flicked to the drawer where she kept her most private thoughts. The lock would have done nothing. Her roommate, Chloe, was meticulously organizing her makeup, a task that demanded a level of focus Amelia found deeply unsettling at that moment.

Each swipe of the brush sounded far too loud. Her heart hammered against her ribs. She swallowed hard, struggling for air.

A wave of nausea washed over her. She imagined Chloe reading the words, her opinions, her secrets. The thought made her skin crawl, and a tightness settled 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