frightened - Story 50990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the notice, "Condo Conversion," was almost unbearable. Sarah felt a profound sense of disorientation. She sat down heavily on her bed, her legs suddenly refusing to support her.

The familiar scent of her apartment, the scent of home, now seemed tinged with a foreboding odor. She felt a wave of dizziness and leaned forward, placing her head between her knees.

She found herself unable to focus on anything, her thoughts jumping around in frantic loops. The world around her seemed to be spinning. She wanted to stay put, to remain hidden and safe.

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