frightened - Story 50674 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office felt suffocating. Amelia traced circles on the dusty desktop, avoiding eye contact with Dr. Chen. His words – “moving on to a new opportunity” – reverberated in her ears, each syllable a tiny echo of disaster. She focused on the grime under her fingernails. When would she ever be finished? The walls seemed to be closing in. She needed to escape. Suddenly, the project felt impossibly massive, unwieldy, a monster she could not possibly slay alone.

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