frightened - Story 50758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rustle of the paper was the only sound in the quiet apartment. She sat rigid, the letter clutched in her hands. The room spun around her. Each word was a punch. Each sentence brought another wave of unease.

She felt a wave of dizziness. She gripped the edge of the table, trying to ground herself. Her head throbbed. This couldn’t be happening. Years. It had been years since that day. Years she had spent finding peace. Now, it was gone.

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