frightened - Story 50055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering neon sign outside cast long, dancing shadows inside the shop. Her hands trembled as she pointed at the display case. It was there, shining in the murky light. The ring, her Aunt Mildred’s. A wave of dizziness washed over her.

Each beat of her heart echoed in her ears. The silence was deafening, broken only by the hum of the refrigerator. The thought of confronting the pawnbroker sent a shudder through her.

She felt a hot flush on her cheeks. She was going to be sick. The need to flee was almost overwhelming. She wanted to vanish.

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