frightened - Story 50023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"More purple, please," Amelia had instructed, her tone a little too high-pitched. The crayons felt slick against her sweaty palms. Her niece, Chloe, was happily adding more and more purple to the drawing. The drawing of ‘Captain Buttons,’ a patchwork doll, filled the page. Amelia's hands were shaking so much, she struggled to hold the crayon.

Captain Buttons was *hers*, a relic of long-forgotten terrors, now revived in crayon and innocent imagination. A knot formed in her throat, making it difficult to breathe. She excused herself, muttering something about needing to grab some juice.

She raced out of the room, her footsteps echoing through the house. The image of the doll's button eyes seemed to burn into the back of her eyelids, an unwelcome constant.

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