frightened - Story 50559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated in Chloe's hand as her roommate, Liam, excitedly sent her photos of puppies. Chloe's heart began to race. She quickly turned her phone face down.

"He's perfect, Chloe! Just imagine!" Liam was already calling. Chloe took a deep breath, trying to calm her racing pulse.

The idea of the responsibility, the noise, the potential for messes... it all coalesced into a suffocating feeling. Chloe could barely speak. She focused on the texture of the table, anything to ground herself.

Her mind raced, conjuring worst-case scenarios. She felt trapped. "Liam, can we... can we talk about this later?" she managed, her voice barely a whisper. She wanted to be miles away from the phone, from the discussion, from the impending reality of a puppy.

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