frightened - Story 50006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"It’s… it’s beautiful," the collector stammered, pointing at the tattoo. Claire, the painter, could only manage a weak smile. Her abstract series, "Chromatic Echoes," now permanently on display on someone's torso.

She retreated to the restroom, her face burning. The porcelain felt cool against her forehead. The image, the swirling colors and shapes, had taken on a new meaning.

She felt a wave of nausea. This was her work, made immortal in a way she never intended. She felt a profound sense of violation, as though something had been ripped from her.

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