frightened - Story 50667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sudden stillness, the abrupt absence of movement, was jarring. The lights flickered and died. Sarah found herself unable to regulate her breathing. It felt like a physical struggle to simply draw air into her lungs.

She pressed her back against the cool metal of the elevator wall, feeling a wave of dizziness wash over her. Her hands felt clammy. She closed her eyes for a moment, trying to regain control.

She opened her eyes, immediately turning to face her coworker, Michael. "What's happening?" she asked, her voice high and thin. She couldn't stop the frantic beating of her heart.

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