frightened - Story 50641 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at 2:17 PM, a short, terse announcement from HR. Company-wide meeting scheduled for tomorrow morning. "Important updates." Amelia's hands, usually steady as she typed code, began to tremble. Her breath hitched. She clutched the mouse, knuckles white, staring at the screen as though it might give her more information. The familiar hum of the server room suddenly felt suffocating, the air thick and heavy. A coldness crept up her spine, a prickling sensation that made her want to pull her shoulders in.

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