frightened - Story 50693 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup rattled in Clara's hand as she walked back to her desk. Her palms were slick with sweat. Everyone was buzzing about the promotion, and she wanted to join in, but a lead weight was holding her back.

She tried to focus on her work, but the numbers swam before her eyes. Each email notification, each phone call, sent a jolt of anxiety through her. She felt a wave of nausea wash over her.

She looked out the window at the cityscape, suddenly feeling detached from the world. It was too much. She pressed her head into her hands and fought back the urge to scream.

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