frightened - Story 50993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bookstore felt suddenly too small. The essay, printed on crisp white paper, sat in the "Best of Admissions" section, grinning at her. She felt a need to turn around, to run, to sprint away from the judging eyes of the other shoppers. Her palms were slick with sweat.

She pretended to browse the cookbooks, the colorful covers a blur. A man bumped into her, muttering an apology, but she barely registered it. His casual touch, usually so innocuous, sent a jolt of alarm through her. Everyone was a threat.

She had to get out, she realized. Her breath came in shallow, ragged gasps. She squeezed her eyes shut, wishing to be invisible, before she took off, leaving the essay to itself.

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