frightened - Story 50625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, *god*." Emily whispered, her voice barely audible. Mr. Johnson, her choir teacher, had liked her latest TikTok video. A cold dread seeped into her bones. Her fingers were numb.

The video was silly, a joke about the school talent show. Suddenly, it wasn’t funny. She wanted to claw her eyes out. She felt a need to delete everything, to scrub her account clean.

She barely spoke during choir practice that week, her voice a fragile whisper. She sat as far away from Mr. Johnson as possible, her body rigid, her eyes fixed on the floor. His presence felt like a silent judgement, his gaze a burden.

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