frightened - Story 50643 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the office seemed to flicker, casting long, distorted shadows that danced across the cubicle walls. Sarah hunched over her desk, trying to ignore the nervous chatter that was now a constant background noise. She kept glancing at the clock, each tick echoing in her chest. A tightness settled in her throat, making it difficult to swallow. The air conditioning blasted, but she was suddenly clammy and hot, her palms slick with sweat. What would happen to her mortgage?

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