frightened - Story 50817 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The overhead fluorescent lights seemed to hum, a high-pitched whine that amplified the tension in the air. Emily nervously chewed on her lip, a habit she'd thought she'd broken. *Dr. Kevin Johnson*. The name on the brass plate was a punch to the gut. Kevin Johnson, the bane of her existence, now in a position of authority.

Her pulse quickened. She felt a familiar knot of dread forming in her stomach. Every painful memory was suddenly brought back to the surface. She played the encounters in her mind.

She gripped the armrests of the chair, her knuckles turning white. She imagined the mockery in his eyes, the dismissive wave of his hand. The door was a barrier and she didn't want to cross it.

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