frightened - Story 50512 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sweat slicked down Maya's palms, making the basketball feel alien, slippery. The squeak of the gym door opening made her jump. Coach Davis walked in, his face unreadable. Her breath hitched. She’d practiced her free throws relentlessly, stayed after every session, hoping, praying… She watched as the coach scanned the room, his gaze finally landing on her.

"Maya, can I see you outside?"

Her heart hammered against her ribs, a wild bird trapped in a cage. She knew, with a certainty that stole the air from her lungs. She followed, her steps hesitant, her stomach twisted into a cold knot. The fluorescent lights of the hallway seemed to mock her with their brightness.

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