frightened - Story 50527 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news broke like a dam, flooding social media with accusations. For Maya, it was a tsunami, threatening to drown her. Her favorite author, the one whose words had seen her through the darkest times, had been exposed. Her world felt shattered.

She sat on her bed, her legs pulled up to her chest, arms wrapped around them. She could feel the tremors inside of her. She couldn’t seem to think straight. She felt a growing pressure in her head.

The glow of her laptop screen flickered in the darkness, the endless stream of comments and articles a torment. She wanted to look away, but she couldn't. She needed to know, but she couldn't.

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