frightened - Story 50003 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Magnificent," the tattoo artist had declared, showing off the completed sleeve. Sarah, the artist, felt a cold knot tighten in her gut. Her meticulously detailed linework, her "Whispers of the Woods" design, permanently etched onto another person's skin… It felt…wrong.

She found herself backing away slowly, her voice a strained whisper. "I… I need to go." The tattoo artist grinned, oblivious.

Back in her car, Sarah gripped the steering wheel so tightly her knuckles were white. The world seemed to tilt. She felt like something precious had been stolen, leaving her with an unsettling emptiness. She drove, not towards her home, but away from the tattoo parlor, and away from the thought of it.

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