frightened - Story 50579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice felt trapped in her throat. Across the diner booth, the man, who was supposed to be her childhood confidant, Chris, met her gaze with a polite, yet unfamiliar expression. "I'm sorry, I don't think I know you," he said calmly, as he sipped his coffee.

Her hands shook so badly that she could not even bring her own coffee to her lips. The aroma of the diner was now cloying, the clatter of the plates irritating, the voices a maddening chorus. Every muscle in her body locked up, as though preparing for a fight. She wanted to be swallowed by the ground. She wanted to stop existing.

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