frightened - Story 50537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived in the mail, crisp and official. Amelia ripped it open, her fingers fumbling with the paper. The words leaped off the page: "Recission of Scholarship." Her breath caught in her chest, a painful knot. She sank into a chair, the world around her shrinking. The vibrant colors of her apartment seemed to dim. Images of her looming bills flooded her mind. She ran her hands through her hair, desperate to unravel the knot in her stomach, the one that constricted every breath.

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