frightened - Story 50561 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation sat on Amelia's fridge, a cheerful splash of pink paper mocking her. Sarah's party. Saturday. Amelia’s own birthday. A coldness settled in her stomach, a knot twisting with each passing hour.

She chewed on her lip, staring at the phone. Should she call Sarah? Reschedule? No, that would be admitting defeat. She’d planned this party for months, a grand affair at the community center, and now… now it felt like a trap.

Her hands trembled as she laid out the decorations. Balloons, streamers, all in the colors of joy, seemed to glare back at her. The silence in the apartment pressed in.

The doorbell chimed, a sharp, unwelcome sound. Her pulse leaped. She peered through the peephole, seeing only a blur. Taking a deep breath, she opened the door, bracing herself. It was just the pizza delivery guy.

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