frightened - Story 50801 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in Amelia’s inbox, a stark white rectangle against the muted gray. She had to take a few deep breaths before clicking it open. Her hands felt clammy as she read the subject line: “DNA Match - Potential Family.” Her pulse quickened, a frantic drum against her ribs.

She scrolled through the impersonal text, each line a new wave of disquiet. A half-sibling, the message declared. A brother, residing in a city she’d only visited once. Her breath hitched. She felt like she was trapped in a cage.

Amelia slammed the laptop shut with a suddenness that made the machine shudder. The sudden noise of the fan startled her. She paced her apartment, the hardwood floors creaking beneath her feet. Why now? Why this? A knot formed in her stomach, heavy and cold.

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