frightened - Story 50658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in her grasp, nearly spilling its contents. Her eyes darted around the coffee shop, as if expecting to see someone watching her. She had planned to text her therapist, a lighthearted update on her week. Instead, a message containing a dark secret – one she had only revealed to herself – was now in the hands of the very person she was trying to avoid.

She felt like she was trapped in a cage. Her pulse quickened with every passing moment. The aroma of coffee suddenly turned nauseating. She had to get out, to disappear.

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