frightened - Story 50029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in Claire’s hand. Her sister's words, about her daughter, Maya, and her drawings of ‘Mr. Grin’, echoed in her ears. Claire dropped the phone, the clatter on the floor making her jump. She turned away from the phone, trying to make herself relax. The drawings of Mr. Grin had the same unnerving grin as hers. The same one.

A chill ran down her spine. The room felt suddenly cold, and she crossed her arms, trying to ward off the sensation. The air seemed to buzz with a silent energy.

She had to see the drawings. She *had* to.

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