frightened - Story 50921 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering fluorescent lights of the clinic seemed to pulse in time with Amelia's racing heart. Her palms were slick against the cheap plastic chair. She'd been waiting for hours, the air thick with the hushed coughs and sniffles of the other patients. A nurse finally called her name.

"Ms. Hernandez?"

Amelia nearly jumped, scrambling to her feet. The doctor's office was sterile, the air conditioning blasting. Dr. Chen, a woman with kind eyes, gestured for her to sit. "I have your test results," she began, her voice softening.

Amelia’s stomach lurched. Every muscle in her body clenched. She saw the doctor’s expression. It wasn’t good.

"You have... Well, you have what we call Chromatic Dysregulation Syndrome," Dr. Chen said, pausing. "It’s extremely rare."

Amelia leaned forward, her hands twisting in her lap. The room started to spin.

"We need you to meet someone," Dr. Chen continued, "Another patient. Also diagnosed with CDS."

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