frightened - Story 50623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification made Clara's insides twist. Mr. Peterson, her physics teacher, had started following her on Instagram. The blood drained from her face. She closed the laptop, a shiver running through her. She was unable to look at his profile.

She jumped at every creak of the house, every rustle of leaves outside her window. She felt trapped. The next day, she skipped his class, claiming illness. She couldn’t bring herself to face him.

She avoided the school hallways, the cafeteria. She felt a phantom presence, the invisible weight of his attention. She knew she was being irrational, but the thought of his eyes on her, online and offline, created a terrible pressure in her chest.

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