frightened - Story 50997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up during her shift at the coffee shop. Her application essay, the one about her childhood home, was now a showcase piece. She felt a tremor in her hands as she dropped the steaming coffee pot.

She hastily apologized to the customer. It was a disaster, a betrayal. She felt exposed, stripped bare. Her pulse raced. Every gaze felt like judgment.

She excused herself to the back, leaning against the cold metal of the storage shelves. The scent of coffee, usually comforting, now turned her stomach. She needed to escape, to be away from the prying eyes of the world.

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