frightened - Story 50028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies did little to soothe Arthur's growing agitation. The image on the paper, drawn by his nephew, Thomas, was branded in his mind. The drawings' ‘Whisperer’ with its unsettlingly smooth features. His hands trembled as he reached for a cookie, the crumbs scattering across the table.

He remembered. The whispers in the dark. The feeling of being watched. He shifted uncomfortably in his chair, suddenly convinced something was behind him.

He was going to find out what was going on. He'd find some way to protect Thomas from the invisible friend that seemed to be invading his life. He wasn’t going to let that thing, whatever it was, hurt anyone else.

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