frightened - Story 50522 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been her idol. For years, she’d devoured every word of Silas Blackwood, the master of dark fantasy. Now, Sarah stared at the comparison document, her vision blurring, and a chill prickled her skin. It felt like the ground had vanished beneath her feet.

She dropped the document onto the table, the paper crinkling harshly in the sudden quiet. A low moan escaped her lips. Her fingers clawed at her own arms, seeking comfort that wouldn't come. The room was spinning, she needed something to hold on to.

The phone rang, shattering the tense silence. It was her agent. Sarah let it ring, the sound echoing unnaturally loud in the sudden stillness. Each ring felt like a needle prick. She couldn't answer. She couldn't speak.

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