frightened - Story 50715 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No, no, no,” Clara whispered, clutching the notice to her chest. The words blurred before her eyes. She felt a prickling sensation on her skin, as if she were about to break out in hives. She gripped the worn fabric of her sweater, her knuckles white.

She retreated to the bedroom, the only place where she felt some measure of safety. She sat on the edge of the bed, her legs trembling. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the image of the eviction, but the words echoed in her mind.

She opened the closet, her gaze scanning the few items she possessed. A sudden panic seized her. She felt overwhelmed, incapable of dealing with the situation. She drew a shaky breath, whispering reassurances to herself, each word a desperate plea.

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