frightened - Story 50011 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the teacup against the saucer nearly made Eleanor jump. Her Aunt Millie’s announcement hung in the air, a thick, suffocating thing. Eleanor stared at her hands, where they twisted in her lap. The room, usually so cozy with the scent of cinnamon and old books, now felt cavernous, the shadows in the corners seeming to deepen. She couldn't meet her aunt's gaze, the one that usually twinkled with such warmth and mischief.

"So, you're... you're sure?" Eleanor finally managed, her voice barely a whisper. The words felt foreign on her tongue, heavy and unfamiliar. The silence that followed stretched, taut and thin, threatening to snap.

Her aunt, oblivious to the emotional turmoil, simply smiled and replied with a gentle nod.

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