frightened - Story 50995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The publication was a slap in the face. Sarah clutched the physical copy of the magazine, her knuckles turning white. The words, once carefully chosen, now felt like accusations. Her stomach churned.

She couldn't believe it. She felt the sudden urge to shred the article, to tear it to pieces and hide it away. Her breath hitched. She was trapped.

She ran to the bathroom, splashing cold water on her face. Her reflection stared back, the eyes wide and haunted. She leaned against the cool tile, feeling a profound sense of helplessness.

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