frightened - Story 50877 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of chlorine assaulted her nostrils as she entered the pool hall. The posters, blown up and plastered across the walls, loomed over her. Her art.

She felt a tremor run through her. She felt pinned, trapped, with nowhere to hide. Her stomach twisted, and she felt suddenly lightheaded.

The gallery had assured her the work would be kept private. But here it was, splashed across a public space. She fumbled for her phone. The familiar weight offered no comfort. She wanted to scream at the posters, at the people laughing around her.

She backed away, the laughter turning into a dull roar in her ears. She stumbled over a pool cue and fled into the night.

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