frightened - Story 50446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the dorm room buzzed, a constant, irritating drone that amplified her discomfort. She knew. It was just a feeling. She didn't want to overreact, but something wasn't right. The pages, she knew, were no longer as she’d left them. She stared at her roommate, Jake. He was staring back at her.

"Everything alright, Alice?" Jake asked, his voice too gentle. She noticed he was holding a small piece of paper. The paper felt familiar.

She abruptly turned away. Her throat constricted. The room suddenly seemed far too small, the walls closing in. She needed to get out.

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