frightened - Story 50600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the letter felt crushing in her hand. The elegant paper and the carefully chosen font offered no comfort. She felt a cold wave wash over her, stealing the strength from her limbs. She sank into the chair, the room spinning around her.

Her breath came in shallow, ragged gasps. The walls of her study seemed to be closing in, the bookshelves looming over her like judgmental figures. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the world, to escape the crushing feeling of inadequacy that consumed her.

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