frightened - Story 50060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold bit at her skin, and she clutched her coat tighter. She felt off-kilter, unbalanced. The ring – her great-aunt’s – seemed to mock her from its velvet bed. Her hands trembled. Her palms were sweating.

She wanted to scream. She wanted to run. Instead, she stood frozen, the silence of the shop amplifying every small noise. The thought of speaking to the pawnbroker filled her with a sense of dread.

She couldn’t tear her gaze away from the ring, from the glittering reminder of a past she couldn't outrun. Her breath hitched in her throat.

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