frightened - Story 50581 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafe buzzed with the Saturday morning rush. Sarah clutched her coffee cup, knuckles white. She’d come here, hoping to lose herself in the anonymity of the crowd, to forget. Then, the first chords. Her own song. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drummer trapped in a confined space.

The singer, a girl with a voice like spun gold, sang the lyrics Sarah had poured her soul into, but now they felt alien, detached. She wanted to bolt, to disappear, to scream. Instead, she sat frozen, each note a fresh wave of panic washing over her.

She noticed her hand trembling so badly the coffee in her cup sloshed over the rim. She could feel every eye in the room on her. The singer smiled at her, and Sarah turned bright red.

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