frightened - Story 50123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The little girl, Lily, clutched her teddy bear so tightly that its button eye threatened to pop off. Her lower lip trembled, and she blinked rapidly, trying to keep the tears from spilling over. Her mother's graduation. She was supposed to be there, front row, cheering her on.

The endless stream of announcements, a mix of incomprehensible jargon and robotic apologies, were making her head spin. She imagined her mother, standing alone on the stage.

She gripped her mother's phone and repeatedly tried to call her. She knew she should wait. Each busy signal felt like a dagger to the heart.

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