frightened - Story 50015 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. Sarah heard her daughter, Emily, utter the words, “I'm becoming a Muslim," and all the color drained from the room. Sarah's hands flew to her mouth, her eyes widening.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. The sound of Emily's voice faded to a dull hum. Sarah sat, paralyzed, on the sofa. What would this mean for their family dinners? What about the Christmas celebrations?

She couldn't speak. She couldn't move. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat in the sudden stillness.

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