frightened - Story 50826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver ran down her spine, and she felt a distinct loss of blood flow to her extremities. The presentation slides. The preliminary data. The proposed marketing strategy. All her work, replicated, mirrored perfectly. The blood pounded in her ears.

She felt a desperate urge to run, to escape the suffocating confines of the presentation room. Her breath hitched, shallow and rapid. Her palms were sweating.

She forced a weak smile, trying to appear engaged as the project lead finished his overview, but inside, a storm was brewing. She managed a strained, "Excellent work." Her voice sounded hollow, like a ghost.

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