frightened - Story 50018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I have found a path,” his sister, Chloe, announced, a soft smile gracing her lips, “I'm studying to become a Buddhist monk." Leo stared at her, the blood draining from his face. His sister was the only person he had.

The comfortable familiarity of their shared living room suddenly felt hostile and unfamiliar. He felt a sharp pang in his stomach. The thought of Chloe living a life removed from him, a life dedicated to a different philosophy, sent a shiver down his spine.

He wrapped his arms around himself, as if to ward off a cold that had suddenly materialized within him.

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