frightened - Story 50517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air of the gym hung heavy, thick with the scent of rubber and anticipation. Sarah felt a tremor run through her, a wave of nausea building. The badminton racket felt heavy in her hand. She watched Coach Peterson call out names, her voice echoing in the cavernous space. Each name, a breath of hope and relief, was followed by a crushing, silent weight.

She knew she hadn’t played her best in the tryouts. The knot in her stomach tightened as Coach Peterson’s gaze finally landed on her. The silence stretched, and then her name was not called. Her hands started to shake.

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