frightened - Story 50584 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall was a cathedral of sound, a symphony of anticipation. Amelia, hidden in the shadows of the sound booth, could feel the tremor in the floorboards. Then the opening notes. Her song.

Her lungs constricted. The band's interpretation was all wrong, a betrayal of everything she had intended. The pressure in her chest became unbearable.

She found herself unable to breathe properly. Each crashing cymbal, each soaring vocal, a fresh blow. She leaned against the console, her legs turning to jelly. She should leave. She needed to. But she was rooted to the spot.

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