frightened - Story 50908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news broke as Sofia was helping her roommate pack for a study abroad program. The irony wasn't lost on her. She felt a prickling sensation in her eyes, a strange, burning sensation she couldn't quite identify. She instinctively reached out, gripping her roommate’s arm, seeking some form of grounding in the sudden emotional maelstrom.

The bright, colorful posters on her roommate’s walls, usually a source of cheerful energy, now seemed taunting, reminders of a future that might never be. She felt a strange buzzing in her ears, a constant, unsettling hum that seemed to amplify the silence. She struggled to speak, the words catching in her throat, a wave of cold dread washing over her.

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