frightened - Story 50058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air of the pawn shop pressed against her chest, making it hard to draw a breath. She felt pinned, as if an invisible weight were holding her in place. The ring, her mother's, sparkled wickedly under the harsh light.

She tried to swallow, but her throat constricted. A knot of unease formed in the pit of her stomach. She felt unsteady. She needed to get out of this place. Now.

She couldn’t meet the pawnbroker’s eye. His gaze was too steady, too knowing. She looked away, her gaze flickering around the room, desperately searching for an escape.

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