frightened - Story 50669 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator jerked to a stop. Then silence. Amy felt a cold rush, a feeling that began in her toes and rapidly climbed to the top of her head. The absence of light felt like a tangible presence, pressing in on her.

She took a step back, her back hitting the cold metal. Her breathing became shallow and rapid. She could feel the blood pounding in her ears. She clenched and unclenched her fists, trying to dispel the strange, unsettling feeling that was creeping into her.

She heard a whimper escape her lips. "Help," she whispered, her voice barely audible, the sound swallowed by the darkness.

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