frightened - Story 50617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The microphone seemed impossibly large, a looming presence on the stage. Emily smoothed down her dress, her movements stiff and jerky. Her legs felt like jelly, threatening to betray her at any moment.

She stared at the crowd, a sea of faces blurring into an amorphous mass. She could hear the nervous thud of her own heart. She took a deep breath, trying to slow its frantic rhythm.

Her father smiled at her from the front row, his eyes filled with anticipation. She willed herself to smile back, but her lips felt frozen in place. She felt a wave of dizziness wash over 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