frightened - Story 50880 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation sat on her desk, a cruel joke. Her stomach twisted into knots. Her breath came in short, shallow gasps. She clutched the edge of the desk, her knuckles white.

Her photographs, her children, her heart, were to be displayed. She never wanted the world to see this, the way she saw them. How was this happening?

She thought about the opening, the crowds, the judgement. She pictured her children's faces. The world would see them. She felt a crushing weight. She wanted to run. She wanted to hide. She buried her head in her arms, unable to move.

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