frightened - Story 50026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you draw this, Sophie?" Evelyn’s voice was strained, barely above a whisper. She stared at the drawing, a crude sketch of a figure with oversized hands and feet, named "Tickles" by her niece. It was the same "Tickles" that had haunted her as a child. Her mouth felt dry, her throat tight. She looked at Sophie, her heart aching.

Sophie nodded enthusiastically, her eyes sparkling. Evelyn felt the walls of the room close in on her. The air felt heavy, and it was hard to breathe. "That’s… very creative," Evelyn managed to say, her voice trembling.

She had to get Sophie away from this house. Somewhere safe. Somewhere far.

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