frightened - Story 50187 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her vision blurred. Each footstep across the wooden floorboards, from the bedroom to the living room, felt labored and unsteady. The phone, carelessly left on the coffee table, was now a menacing presence. The number, a series of digits she’d never seen before, loomed large in her mind. Her gaze darted around the room, as though searching for an escape route. The walls seemed to be closing in.

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