frightened - Story 50824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A cold sweat slicked down her back. Amelia knew something was amiss the moment she opened the document. The presentation. The research. The methodology. It was a precise, uncannily accurate copy of her own magnum opus.

She gripped the edge of her desk, her knuckles bone-white. Her mouth felt dry. The air seemed thick, hard to breathe. The CEO, Mr. Henderson, was smiling, praising the "innovative" project, oblivious to the turmoil brewing within her.

Amelia tried to speak, to interject, but her voice failed her. She felt a wave of dizziness and struggled to maintain her composure. She needed to leave, to get away.

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