frightened - Story 50634 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery was a punch to the gut. The letter, written in her own adolescent script, detailed a rebellion she'd kept hidden, a lie she'd told. The air in her office felt thin, suffocating. She couldn't get a solid breath.

She stared at the words, the carefully chosen phrases, the way she'd crafted the lies to sound so authentic. Her throat closed. The past felt so close, so immediate. The silence of the office was deafening. Every creak of the building made her jump.

She felt a wave of nausea. The secret she’d thought long buried had risen to the surface.

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