frightened - Story 50696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This could change everything," she thought, as she stared at the office door. The interview was scheduled for tomorrow morning. Her palms felt clammy. Sarah began to pace.

She rehearsed answers in her head, over and over, but the words felt clumsy and inadequate. She was suddenly finding it hard to catch her breath.

She looked at the clock, watching the seconds tick by. Time was going too fast and too slow. She grabbed her coat and went outside for a walk, needing air. The fresh air only helped a little.

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