frightened - Story 50087 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The man from the construction company was jovial, but his voice grated on Clara’s nerves. He kept making small talk, gesturing towards her house, towards the space he was about to enclose. She nodded, offering clipped responses.

She retreated to the interior of her house, to the back room, and pulled the blinds shut. The space went dark. A tremor started in her jaw, and it wouldn't stop.

The noise of the construction was like a physical blow. She wrapped her arms around herself, trying to find some semblance of calm. She couldn’t.

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