frightened - Story 50097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Don’t worry, sweetie, we’re so glad to have you back.” Her mother's words, meant to soothe, felt like a cage closing around her. The bright, floral wallpaper of the kitchen seemed to pulsate with a threatening cheerfulness.

She nodded, forcing a smile. The air seemed thick, hard to breathe. Her palms were slick with sweat.

She set down her coffee cup, the ceramic clinking loudly. The silence of the house was oppressive, broken only by the rhythmic ticking of the grandfather clock in the hall.

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