frightened - Story 50819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting area was too quiet. The silence amplified the pounding in Clara's ears. *Dr. Benjamin Carter*. The name was a hammer blow to her sense of security. Benjamin Carter, who made her life a living hell. She was here for help, but how could she trust him?

Her stomach churned, a cold sensation spreading through her. She felt like she was trapped. She thought about his cruel words, the way he would laugh, the shame she felt.

She picked at a loose thread on her sleeve. She wanted to be anywhere but there. The thought of facing him, of being vulnerable in front of him, filled her with apprehension. She glanced at the door and considered turning around.

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