frightened - Story 50547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the social media page seemed to scream at Amelia. Her daughter, Chloe, was practically a stranger in these posts. A knot formed in her throat. She was a ghost watching a stranger’s life.

She felt a wave of nausea. The air in the room felt thick, heavy. She felt as though she couldn't move, as though she were rooted to the chair.

Her mind raced. What did this mean?

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