frightened - Story 50086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d offered to help build it, but she'd declined, her voice a strained whisper. Sarah couldn’t understand, kept asking, "Why, Mom?" and she couldn't explain.

Now, she stood at the window, watching the two men work. The posts were up, looking like prison bars. Her throat felt tight.

The sun beat down on the freshly-cut wood. She felt like she couldn’t breathe. She went to the medicine cabinet, her hands fumbling for her inhaler.

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