frightened - Story 50814 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The receptionist smiled, a saccharine sweetness that grated on Eleanor’s nerves. "Dr. Thomas is ready for you now, Eleanor. Just down the hall." Eleanor’s throat constricted. Thomas, as in, *him*. The very thought sent a tremor through her.

She tried to project an air of calm as she walked down the corridor, but her limbs felt like they were moving through molasses. Her vision swam slightly. He was the one who had made her life so hard. Now, he was supposed to provide a safe space? The irony was almost unbearable.

Her mind raced, replaying scenes from her childhood. She could practically hear his voice, feel his gaze. She halted in front of the door, her hand trembling as she reached for the handle.

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