frightened - Story 50733 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated in Emily’s hand. It was Chloe. "Can you come over?" The text read. "Need to tell you something." Emily knew instantly. Her fingers tightened around the phone.

The familiar drive to Chloe’s felt like a marathon. Her palms were slick with sweat. She kept replaying potential scenarios, each one worse than the last. She tried to anticipate what Chloe would say, but she couldn't.

Chloe's face was etched with a sadness Emily didn't recognize. The words came, soft and quiet. "I'm leaving." Emily’s world felt tilted. She stared at the floor, unable to meet Chloe's gaze.

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