frightened - Story 50545 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Emily's hand, a lead weight. Liam's profile, full of carefully curated images and cryptic comments, shimmered on the screen. She replayed the encounter that led her here, the casual mention by a neighbor, the hushed tone. Now, the weight of a secret she hadn't known settled on her.

Her palms were sweating, and she felt a prickle of goosebumps on her arms. A sense of unease settled in her stomach. She looked down the hall at his bedroom door. It seemed miles away.

She took a deep breath. She had to do something.

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