frightened - Story 50740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheerful chatter of the cafe, usually a comfort, now felt like an assault. Sarah had just heard, in this very place, her friend was leaving. She stared at her untouched latte, the steam curling up and away.

She took a deep breath, trying to regain control. Her hands trembled slightly as she reached for her purse. Everything felt heavy, as if weighted down.

The walk home, usually a pleasant stroll, now felt impossibly long. The sun, normally a source of warmth, now felt oppressive. She hurried through the streets, eager to reach the safety of her apartment.

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