frightened - Story 50695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone on Elena's desk buzzed insistently. She jumped. It was probably another colleague with congratulatory wishes. Her smile felt wooden, forced. She could feel the blood draining from her face.

The promotion was the only thing she had been striving for this year. Now it was within reach but she suddenly felt like she was standing on the edge of a cliff. She bit down hard on her lip.

She watched her competitor, John, chatting casually with the boss, and that stomach feeling returned again. Her hands began to tingle. She excused herself to go the bathroom.

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