frightened - Story 50594 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No," she whispered, the word a fragile breath against the vast emptiness of her office. The cursor blinked innocently on the screen, a beacon of defiance in a darkened room. She felt a tightening in her chest, a sudden inability to draw a full breath. Her fingers curled into fists.

She reread the email, each sentence a stab, a confirmation of the fear that had been lurking in her mind. She ran a hand over her face, needing to wipe away the tears that were starting to well. The silence pressed in on her, amplifying the tremor in her hands, the rapid beating of her heart.

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