frightened - Story 50830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in her chest was immense. She wanted to scream. Her heart rate had increased. She saw it, the project, and it was hers. Her mind raced, a whirlwind of frantic thoughts.

She felt as if the room began to spin. Her breath caught in her throat. She gripped the edge of the desk, the wood cold and hard beneath her fingers.

She looked at her colleague, who was now smiling. She managed a weak smile, but her world had collapsed. It was stolen. She felt as though she’d been robbed.

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