frightened - Story 50930 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall, once a source of exquisite joy, now seemed suffocating to Sophia. The bright lights and the loud music were overwhelming her senses. Each note of the orchestra pounded through her body.

The doctor’s words – “uncommon… very few cases…” – echoed in her ears.

She was directed to a smaller, quieter room. The air was still and close.

A woman was sitting there, her face etched with a familiar despair. Their eyes met, and a silent understanding passed between them. Sophia's hands clenched. The world started to tilt.

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